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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7557

26 April 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

What is the motive behind legal apprenticeships, asks Geoffrey Bindman QC

The EAT has provided further guidance as to what amounts to harassment, as Chris Bryden & Michael Salter observe

A covenant to keep a property in good & substantial repair & condition can hold hidden pitfalls, as Nicholas Asprey reports

Rod Cowper & Michael Twomey study the latest approach to piercing the veil

Clack v Wrigleys Solicitors LLP [2013] All ER (D) 83 (Apr)

Fortress Value Recovery Fund I LLC and others v Blue Skye Special Opportunities Fund LP and others [2013] EWCA Civ 367, [2013] All ER (D) 115 (Apr)

Public Relations Consultants Association Ltd v Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and others [2013] UKSC 18, [2013] All ER (D) 102 (Apr)

Murray and another v Neil Dowlman Architecture Ltd [2013] EWHC 872 (TCC), [2013] All ER (D) 92 (Apr)

CW v SG [2013] EWHC 854 (Fam), [2013] All ER (D) 117 (Apr)

Ecclestone v Medway NHS Foundation Trust [2013] EWHC 790 (QB), [2013] All ER (D) 72 (Apr)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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