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Issue: Vol 168, Issue 7789

20 April 2018
IN THIS ISSUE

In their third update on trial technology Michael Fletcher & Helen Pugh discuss the drivers for change

Caroline Bielanska provides a case study demonstrating how lasting powers of attorney apply where an elderly relative loses capacity

Geoffrey Bindman searches for a legal justification for the recent attack by the US, Britain & France on Syria

George Hepburne Scott considers how changes to the judiciary in Poland could affect Britain’s post-Brexit extradition relationship with the EU

Uncertainty remains regarding the impact of Brexit on London’s legal community, as Julian Acratopulo explains

Private prosecutions are taking off as a useful way to protect your brand & products, as Matt Bosworth explains

Patrick Wheeler & Mette Marie Sutton explain how increased data subject access rights could wreak havoc

Ian Smith celebrates an anniversary & is proof that quality never goes out of fashion

Cumulative effect of insurer’s tactic could run to many millions of pounds

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Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes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