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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7287

06 September 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

David Truex Solicitor (a firm) v Kitchin [2007] EWCA Civ 618, [2007] All ER (D) 53 (Jul)

Sentencing Guidelines Council: Revised Definitive Guideline—Reduction in Sentence for a Guilty Plea:

Victims of crime are heard but not always heeded. Julian Broadhead explains

Veitch v Avery [2007] EWCA Civ 711, [2007] All ER (D) 177 (Jul)

The government’s commitment to maintaining the status quo in family courts is a disappointing policy reversal, says Sarah Palin

News

Do government proposals to expand the use of public procurement do enough to promote equality of opportunity? asks Christopher McCrudden

The requirement to give advance notice of mass cycle rides is a worrying incursion on civil liberties, says Seamus Burns

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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