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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7270

26 April 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

Paul Hewitt and Adam Cloherty report on recent cases involving forgery and stale claims on insolvent estates

In the first of two articles marking 10 years of the Arbitration Act 1996, Khawar Qureshi QC discusses some key cases

How is the ECJ tackling discrimination in domestic tax systems? Tim Crosley and Michael Walsh report

Should the UK be taxing aviation fuel, asks Katherine Dunseath and Richard Macrory

DTI gets egg on its face, The Gibbons review, What should replace abandoned statutory procedures?

Eskelinen and others v Finland (app no 63235/00), Evans v United Kingdom (app no 6339/05)

Vulnerable child witness, Unfit witnesses, Cross border regulators

Those brave enough to expose the state's dark underbelly should be celebrated, says Geoffrey Bindman

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Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes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