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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7257

25 January 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

S v S (Divorce: Distribution of Assets) [2006] EWHC 2793, [2006] All ER (D) 137 (Nov)

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R (on the application of Dennis) v Director of Public Prosecutions
[2006] EWHC 3211 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 43 (Jan)

Periodical payments have come of age, says
Nicholas Bevan

In brief

Even the least contentious aspect of the Mental Health Bill has one or two secrets of its own. David Hewitt explains why

R v Hart [2006] EWCA Crim 3239, [2006] All ER (D) 174 (Dec)

Consumer demand will drive the Co-operative Group’s legal services venture, says Eddie Ryan

Dorothea Gartland reports on the courts’ attitude to section 38 assessment funding

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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