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Issue: Vol 168, Issue 7819

30 November 2018
IN THIS ISSUE

Clare Arthurs & Richard Marshall share an (almost) A to Z of life in the costs lane

​Mark Whittell offers a novel solution to the stresses & strains of the boundary dispute

​Hannah Carroll considers the use of exclusive arbitration agreements in workplace disputes

Latest CPR update; family changes too; Costs Guide Revival; Fast then Small; Family Orders march on

Laura Martin recommends adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to occupational & industrial disease claims

Alec Samuels explores a defence that can reduce murder to manslaughter

David Burrows shines the spotlight on the latest developments in evidence & family law

​In the second part of this special series on road traffic accident reform, Nicholas Bevan reports on the difficulties of regulating highly & semi-automated vehicles

Peter Thompson QC reports from the front line on the challenges of litigating by proxy

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Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes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