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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

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

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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