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Issue: Vol 166, Issue 7687

19 February 2016
IN THIS ISSUE

Dominic Regan reports on “unwordly” fixed costs & the missing impact assessment

Response from Matthew Wagstaff, Joint head of Bribery and Corruption Division, Serious Fraud Office

Has the SFO shifted its stance on waiving privilege? Jonathan Pickworth asks for clarity

Ian Smith notes the recent newsworthy decisions from the employment courts

Is there a right to use sporting & recreational facilities, asks Mark West

Alex Fox & Emma Davies suggest there is reason for cautious optimism for claimants involved in interest rate swaps litigation

Michael L Nash considers the legal pitfalls of Mary Tudor & Queen Elizabeth II

Birmingham City Council v D and another [2016] EWCOP 8, [2016] All ER (D) 05 (Feb)

R (on the application of Steinfeld and another) v Secretary of State for Education [2016] EWHC 128 (Admin), [2016] All ER (D) 230 (Jan)

Q v Q (No 3) [2016] EWFC 5, [2016] All ER (D) 20 (Feb)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—Amie Williamson

WSP Solicitors—Amie Williamson

Gloucestershire firm boosts residential conveyancing team

mfg Solicitors—Andrew Johnson

mfg Solicitors—Andrew Johnson

Firm strengthens corporate team in Worcester with new hire

London Market FOIL—Ling Ong

London Market FOIL—Ling Ong

Weightmans partner appointed president of London Market Forum of Insurance Lawyers

NEWS
The extension of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) from low-value personal injury to most civil cases worth up to £100,000 ‘is failing to deliver what it promised’, the Law Society has warned
Bar campaigns will focus on protecting juries, legal aid and children’s rights in the year ahead with a working group already looking into the age of criminal responsibility, chair Kirsty Brimelow KC has said
Richard Orpin has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) of the Legal Services Board (LSB), which oversees all nine legal regulators
Workers will be given day-one rights to parental leave in April, the government has confirmed
Lord Sales has become deputy president, and Lord Doherty a justice, at the Supreme Court. Both were sworn in this week at a ceremony conducted by the court’s president Lord Reed in Courtroom One
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