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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7646

27 March 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

Embassies’ employment immunities are in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, as Charles Pigott reports

Spousal maintenance in a time of change outlined by Hazel Wright

Henrietta Mason & Paola Fudakowska provide a wills & probate update

Edward Rowntree explains why deathbed gifts are under the Appeal Court spotlight

James Ward takes issue with the chancellor’s unjustified attack on deeds of variation

Peter Vaines …& George Osborne get serious about tax evasion

Ecovision Systems Ltd v Vinci Construction UK Ltd [2015] EWHC 587 (TCC), [2015] All ER (D) 160 (Mar)

Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd and another [2015] UKSC 17, [2015] All ER (D) 185 (Mar)

Intermark Srl v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Design) T-384/13, [2015] All ER (D) 192 (Mar)

Naazneen Investments Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-250/13, [2015] All ER (D) 191 (Mar)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Firm announces appointment of next chair

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Director joins corporate team from the US

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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