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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7273

17 May 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

R (Balding) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2007] EWHC 759 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 27 (Apr)

Courts are prepared to use more imaginative ways to access and share information, says Ian Mann

The Law Society is threatening legal action against the Legal Services Commission (LSC) over its plans to introduce tendering for very high cost cases (VHCCs).

Lamont v Burton [2007] EWCA Civ 429, [2007] All ER (D) 131 (May)

The right to reject: did the Law Lords miss a trick? ask Stephen Sly and Paul Clarke

An 11th hour wave of opposition to home information packs (HIPs) was taking hold this week as MPs demanded that the controversial initiative be scrapped.

Blundell v Governing Body of St Andrews Catholic Primary School [2007] All ER (D) 159 (May)

Knowsley Housing Trust v White [2007] EWCA Civ 404, [2007] All ER (D) 38 (May)

A blind exam candidate can ask to use her own software and it is up to the examining body to prove that this is not a “reasonable adjustment” in her case, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.

Views on solicitors’ professional conduct obligations regarding conflicts of interest when they want to act for seller and buyer in conveyancing and mortgage-related services are being sought by the Solicitors Regulation Authority

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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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