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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7757

03 August 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

Dominic Regan reports on Lord Justice Jackson’s fixed costs finale

Convention says no, but theoretically a life or hereditary life peer could become prime minister, as Alec Samuels explains

Is legislative change contributing to a demand for outsourced document review & compliance services? Ben Fielding

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Sibcas Ltd [2017] UKUT 298 (TCC), [2017] All ER (D) 207 (Jul)

H v D (Appeal—Failure of Case Management) [2017] EWHC 1907 (Fam), [2017] All ER (D) 193 (Jul)

A Father v A Mother and others [2017] EWFC 48, [2017] All ER (D) 200 (Jul)

Erzberger v TUI AG C-566/15 , All ER (D) 208 (Jul)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

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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