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Issue: Vol 166, Issue 7692

25 March 2016
IN THIS ISSUE

Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC warns against the rush to embrace online justice

Alec Samuels on the loss of pension on remarriage or cohabitation

In the first of a two-part series, David Branson reports on the end of a century old overlap between civil & criminal liability in health & safety

British Gas Trading Ltd v Oak Cash & Carry Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 153, [2016] All ER (D) 128 (Mar)

Bouhadi v Breish [2016] EWHC 602 (Comm), 2016] All ER (D) 167 (Mar)

R (on the application of Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of Britain) v Charity Commission [2016] EWCA Civ 154, [2016] All ER (D) 129 (Mar)

Peires v Bickerton’s Aerodromes Ltd [2016] EWHC 560 (Ch), [2016] All ER (D) 160 (Mar)

James Deacon & Ben Savery set out the lessons to be learnt from recent Pt 36 case law

The Bar Standards Board explains what its strategic plan means for the profession

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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Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes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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