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Issue: Vol 168, Issue 7814

26 October 2018
IN THIS ISSUE

Following the latest case with cake at the core, Athelstane Aamodt takes a culinary journey through a few more legal pickles

​A changing role in changing times? Sophie Gould reports on how in-house lawyers are adopting & adapting advances in legal technology

Question marks over lingua franca status of English law post-Brexit

Not all beneficiaries or trustee decisions are equal, as William Moffett reports

    In his second article on the challenges of amending a defendant’s name, Victor Smith considers the distinction between entities that are truly different & the same defendant merely misnamed

    John McMullen discusses the variation of employment contracts after TUPE transfers

    Legal challenges to solicitors’ bills seem set to increase, says Richard Langley

    Supermarket vicariously liable for employee breach

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    MOVERS & SHAKERS

    Freeths—Ruth Clare

    Freeths—Ruth Clare

    National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

    Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

    Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

    Partner appointed head of family team

    mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

    mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

    Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

    NEWS
    Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
    The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
    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)
    The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
    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
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