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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7603

17 April 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Proposal to restrict insurance providers could fuel market instability

Employers should avoid “copying and pasting” restrictive covenants into contracts in today’s fast-paced world.

Employment agency Reed is liable for up to £158m unpaid tax due on the salaries of thousands of temps it employed, after it lost its judicial review.

The keeping of the roll exercise is due to commence early next month, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced.

Personal injury sufferers in the UK face losses of thousands of pounds, as well as financial and emotional hardship, according to a new report.

Personal injury firms are “courting disaster” by routinely inflating success fees, a leading PI author has warned.

Five musicians who were replaced by a pre-recorded soundtrack for the London production of War Horse have failed in their High Court claim for reinstatement.

More than a quarter of all looked after children come from a small selection of mothers who have had multiple children removed.

Lord Justice Jackson, the main architect of recent civil litigation reforms, has responded to critics, who say the new regime has boosted costs and reduced access to justice.

Routinely inflating success fees to get the magic 25% is courting disaster, warns Jeff Zindani

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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