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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7640

13 February 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

Are “Big Pharma” & voluntary codes ending the Dark Age of industry bias, asks Sarah Moore

Catherine Urquhart reports on a new frontier in discrimination law

As post financial crisis claims against valuers decline Caterina Yandell forecasts the next wave of cases

Practitioners may be allowed to revive cases which might previously have appeared statute barred, say Jolyon Connell & Jeremy Gordon

When is a non-regulated credit agreement regulated asks Fred Philpott

Sierra Fishing Company and others v Farran and others [2015] EWHC 140 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 04 (Feb)

Re Capita Translation and Interpreting Limited [2015] EWFC 5 (Fam), [2015] All ER (D) 45 (Feb)

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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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