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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7685

05 February 2016
IN THIS ISSUE

R (on the application of C) v Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 2, [2016] All ER (D) 206 (Jan)

Counted4 Community Interest Company v Sunderland City Council [2015] EWHC 3898 (TCC), [2016] All ER (D) 198 (Jan)

Camilla Fusco provides guidance for putting in place successful contact arrangements

Stephen Byrne outlines a blow to formulism

Various Claimants v McAlpine and others [2016] EWHC 45 (QB), [2016] All ER (D) 163 (Jan)

R (on the application of McKenzie) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2016] EWHC 102 (Admin), [2016] All ER (D) 203 (Jan)

DPAs: who would want one—and what are the alternatives, asks Jonathan Pickworth

Ben Fielding examines the implications of the end of Safe Harbor

PJV v Assistant Director Adult Social Care Newcastle City Council and another [2015] EWCOP 87, [2016] All ER (D) 87 (Jan)

Sentencing of very large organisations: Emma Davies & Rosie Nelson report

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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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