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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7576

20 September 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

Cost of fraud almost 5.5% of GDP

Concerns over bribery risk

Practising certificate deadline from SRA

The Taylor Review – Scotland’s version of the Jackson Review – has recommended the introduction of contingency fees and one-way cost-shifting.

MPs have approved government proposals, made under the Crime and Courts Act 2013, to allow live television broadcasting in the Court of Appeal.
 

The High Court can order the “return” of a child to the UK despite that child never having set foot on British soil, the Supreme Court has held.
 

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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