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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7593

07 February 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Is the SA 1974 out of date?

Is the Solicitors Act 1974 still relevant, asks Murray Heining

Advice for debtors faced with bailiffs & a camera crew

Stephen Boyd advises debtors on the best course of action when faced with a camera crew

Meghann McTague asks, when is an accident really an accident?

Schmid v Hertel C-328/12 [2014] All ER (D) 221 (Jan)

There is no satisfactory solution for the determination of costs under s 138(2) of CCA 1984, says Winston Jacob

Wales & West Utilities Ltd v PPS Pipeline Systems GmbH [2014] EWHC 54 (TCC), [2014] All ER (D) 215 (Jan)

Furlonger v Pettorelli Lalatta & others [2014] EWHC 37 (Ch), [2014] All ER (D) 192 (Jan)

Trafford v Blackpool Borough Council [2014] EWHC 85 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 183 (Jan)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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