THIS ISSUE
Mark Pawlowski takes a festive look at some of the more humorous cases taken from the English & Commonwealth law reports
InfoTrack’s marketing guru Adam Bullion outlines how to survive & thrive in the ‘experience economy’
Financial Remedies’ new look; Pt 36 interim costs; Late protocol evidence; Costs: conventional or fixed?; Tenants’ Bonanza!
Having focused on case management & proportionality in his first update, Colin Campbell now turns his attention to Sir Rupert’s third interlocking reform—the electronic bill
The wills of Beryl Parsonage illustrate the meaning of want of knowledge and approval, writes Chris Williams
Bethan Walsh discusses what charities need to know about politics
I’m a celebrity (of sorts), but don’t share my private information with the public! Jeremy Clarke-Williams & Nilly Tabatabai report on royals & wags
What makes people tick? Ian Smith signs off for the year with some sobering disclosures on motivation & revenge
Law Society President Simon Davis, a career ‘lifer’ in a magic circle firm, tells Grania Langdon-Down why he is keen to demonstrate Chancery Lane’s relevance to all sides of the profession & the public
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston
Harneys senior leadership appointments
Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan
Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires
Anthony Collins—Laura Moss
Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector
NEWS
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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