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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7274

24 May 2007
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A former KGB officer is to be charged with the murder by poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said this week.

AIC Ltd v Marine Pilot Ltd [2007] EWHC 1182 (Comm), [2007] All ER (D) 280(May)

To mark the Family Court Reports’ birthday, Jonathan Herring reviews family law cases from the past 20 years

The actions of one man transformed the regulation of the solicitors’ profession, says Geoffrey Bindman

Lawyers are happy, according to a recent survey by recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark

Prisoners’ families face high rates of depression, poverty and housing disruption, with the estimated cost of imprisonment rising by almost a third when the social impact is taken into account, a new report finds.

Veils in court are an affront to open justice, says Barbara Hewson

Nicholas Bevan examines the extent to which local authority funded care affects personal injury awards

Do reality-testing, risk analysis and evaluation offer a new model for co-mediation? asks Tony Allen

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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
The controversial Mazur ruling, which caused widespread uncertainty about the role of non-solicitors in litigation work, has been overturned on appeal
Two landmark social media cases in the US could influence social media regulation in the UK, lawyers predict
Barristers have urged the government to set up Nightingale-style specialist courts, with jury trials, to prioritise rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse trials
Victims of violent crimes who suffer life-changing injuries receive less than half the financial support today than those in the 1990s, according to a senior personal injury lawyer
Rising numbers of cases, an increase in litigants in person and an overall lack of investment is piling pressure on the family court, the Law Society has warned
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