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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

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
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