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28 October 2010
Issue: 7439 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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Richard Moorhead Expert advisory group

Richard Moorhead, professor of law at Cardiff University, has been appointed to an expert advisory group to help legal services meet consumer needs.

The group will advise the Legal Services Consumer Panel on the creation of its consumer welfare index. The index is expected to form “consumer health checks” to see whether the market delivers good, affordable and accessible legal services.

Professor Moorhead says: “The legal services market is about to change dramatically. Those changes are designed to lower cost and improve choice but they also need to ensure quality of legal services. However, we need to ensure that this drive for profit does not compromise the interests of clients, be they individuals or small businesses.”
 

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

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Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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