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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7740

31 March 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

A consideration of Parliamentary intent & a deductive approach could have helped ensure Mrs Owens got her way, says David Burrows

Kim Beatson & Victoria Brown provide an update on leave to remove

BPE Solicitors and another v Hughes-Holland [2017] UKSC 21, [2017] All ER (D) 152 (Mar)

LBI EHF (in winding up) v Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG and another [2017] EWHC 522 (Comm), [2017] All ER (D) 163 (Mar)

Malcolm Dowden & Kizzie Fenner examine the evidential potential of the Internet of Things & the benefits of smart contracts

Geoffrey Bindman QC celebrates Anthony Trollope’s depiction of the legal profession

Is Hotak’s bite now worse than its bark? Sophie Bell & Satvir Sahota examine vulnerability decisions in homeless cases

Epoch Company Ltd v Character Options Ltd [2017] EWHC 556 (IPEC), [2017] All ER (D) 165 (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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