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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7772

01 December 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

Roderick Ramage reworks William Shakespeare in bite-size format

Judicial Q&A: challenge route; goods without cash; too much court; mortgage release doubts; who decides on committal?

Jan-Jaap Baer & Mark Hall review recent developments in the law of privilege

Enforcing possession orders in the High Court: Brooke Lyne reviews the meaning of sufficient notice

Gig economy cases are changing the way courts consider employment status, as Tim Welch reports

The Lachaux ruling has brought some much-needed clarity to the definition of serious harm in defamation cases, says Athelstane Aamodt

Laura Naser provides an update on the fall-out from the international cohabitee jurisdiction race

Nicholas Bevan regrets that an opportunity has been missed & justice has not been done

Peter Vaines reflects on some good jokes but little else of substance in the Chancellor’s recent announcements

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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