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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7637

23 January 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

The family law profession faced judicial castigation in a recent case, as Laura Mortimer explains

Is there a claim for the vehicle’s diminution; if so, with what limits? Stewart Fairhurst reports

Can an equitable interest in a house take priority over a legal charge? Nicholas Asprey reports

Regulated unregulated credit, cross-border harassment & CPR latest

Re Estate of Jimmy Savile; National Westminster Bank plc v Lucas and others [2014] EWCA Civ 1632, [2014] All ER (D) 190 (Dec)

Public Joint Stock Company Vseukrainskyi Aktsionernyi Bank v Maksimov and others [2014] EWHC 4370 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 218 (Dec)

Miraszewski and others v District Court In Torun, Poland and another [2014] EWHC 4261 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 208 (Dec)

R (Natural England) v Day [2014] EWCA Crim 2683, [2014] All ER (D) 192 (Dec)

R (on the application of Idira) v Secretary of State for Home Department [2014] EWHC 4299 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 241 (Dec)

R (on the application of Delezuch) v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary; R (on the application of Duggan) v Association of Chief Police Officers [2014] EWCA Civ 1635, [2014] All ER (D) 234 (Dec)

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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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