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20 March 2013
Issue: 7553 / Categories: Legal News
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Jedi wedding?

May the force to marry be with Jedi?

The proposed Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill which would allow a “third category” of groups centred on a belief to perform ceremonies, as well as religious and non-religious groups has attracted criticism. The Reverend Iver Martin of the Free Church of Scotland told the BBC that this “belief” category could mean “virtually anything—the Flat Earth Society and Jedi Knights Society—who knows?”.

Issue: 7553 / Categories: Legal News
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Anthony Collins—William Hallett & Lorna Scully

Anthony Collins—William Hallett & Lorna Scully

Anthony Collins hires two talented legal directors

Switalskis—five appointments

Switalskis—five appointments

Firm expands national abuse compensation team

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

Mathys & Squire—nine promotions

IP firm announces new partners and senior promotions across UK offices

NEWS
A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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