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Issue: Vol 166, Issue 7703

17 June 2016

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Is it goodbye to freedom of testamentary disposition, ask Giselle Davies & Bethan Walsh

Embracing technology can help in-house counsel focus on profitable growth & future-proofing, explains Dr Marc K Peter

When does the common law listen to the child, asks David Burrows

Look to the data protection principles to solve hacking & trolling complaints, says Peter Thompson QC

Scott v Gavigan [2016] All ER (D) 35 (Jun)

Holyoake and another v Candy and others [2016] All ER (D) 213 (Apr)

Parker v Butler [2016] EWHC 1251 (QB), [2016] All ER (D) 24 (Jun)

Typeface in legal documents should not be underestimated, says Athelstane Aamodt

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Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

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Are you suited to a career in prosecution?

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors

LSB marks Mazur homework

Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)

NLJ this week: Stuck in the past?

The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness

NLJ this week: No automatic bar on ‘user damages’

A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law

NLJ this week: Next gen wealth planning meets modern family reality

The next generation is inheriting more than assets—it is inheriting complexity. Writing in NLJ this week, experts from Penningtons Manches Cooper chart how global mobility, blended families and evolving values are reshaping private wealth advice

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Issue: Vol 166, Issue 7703

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison