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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7288

13 September 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

R (on the application of Wells) v Parole Board
R (on the application of Walker) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWHC 1835 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 479 (Jul)

DOLI INCAPAX >>
PROTECTING THE INCAPABLE ELDERLY >>
RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT >>
A NOT SO GOOD SAMARITAN? >>

Natalie Johnston considers whether a party can rely upon pre-contractual statements in lease negotiations to create a contractual obligation

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In brief

Donna Whitehead examines the Law Commission’s recommendations on the financial rights of cohabitants on relationship breakdown

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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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