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29 October 2021
Issue: 7954 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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NLJ this week: Regan recalls a ‘witches brew’

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What are the pros and cons of remote working? There are many, writes NLJ columnist and City Law School professor Dominic Regan.

In this week’s NLJ, Regan tears through an assortment of subjects, from pandemic justice to the new guideline hourly rates, to the latest in a slew of judge’s memoirs, and the astonishing and alarming 1970s trial of singer Janie Jones. 

Issue: 7954 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DAC Beachcroft—Paul Brehony

DAC Beachcroft—Paul Brehony

Commercial disputes practice expands with partner hire in London

Ward Hadaway—Maria Coster

Ward Hadaway—Maria Coster

Partner appointed to lead family and matrimonial department in Leeds

Slater Heelis—Helen Marsh

Slater Heelis—Helen Marsh

Commercial property team expands in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
Financial protections for domestic abuse victims would be strengthened and cohabiting couples be given inheritance and separation rights, under historic government proposals
Doctors and nurses could be sued for mistakes made by the artificial intelligence (AI) equipment they use to treat patients, researchers have warned
The law sector has been chosen as the testing ground for the government’s AI Growth Labs—speeding up development, testing and regulatory compliance so software can be market-ready more quickly
A range of options beyond burial, cremation and burial at sea could become legally available, under Law Commission recommendations
Artificial intelligence (AI) legal assistants will be deployed to cut delays in the Crown Court, ministers have announced
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