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NLJ this week: Stellar careers & predictions on costs budgeting

06 September 2024
Issue: 8084 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Litigation funding , In Court
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Bookies’ favourite? Professor Dominic Regan, aka ‘The insider’ tips a judge as a likely candidate for the top job of Chief Justice at a later date. Read this week’s column in NLJ to find out who

Regan, of City Law School, also laments the lost legislative opportunity to reverse the PACCAR decision on litigation funding, noting: ‘Disputes worth billions are currently in no man’s land.’ However, he expresses confidence in the Court of Appeal’s handling of the issue.

The Insider also covers the latest ‘noises’ on costs budgeting, and is impressed by the ‘exactitude’ of a judge’s order, recently featured in a High Court case. Regan writes: ‘Such clarity is a joy to perceive.’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Mourant—Stephen Alexander

Jersey litigation lead appointed to global STEP Council

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

mfg Solicitors—nine trainees

Firm invests in future talent with new training cohort

360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan

360 Law Group—Anthony Gahan

Investment banking veteran appointed as chairman to drive global growth

NEWS
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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