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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7296

08 November 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

Should we torture terrorist suspects? Philip Rumney and Martin O’Boyle consider both sides of the debate

SLIPPERY FLOORS >>
OMBUDSMAN Decisions >>
VULNERABLE ASYLUM SEEKERS >>

Redress against estate agents >>
Christmas court closures >>
Satisfaction of an expensive motor >>
Shared residency accommodates >>
Pleading industrial accidents >>

Will Microsoft’s latest set-back in the courts be good for competition? Dimitrios Sinaniotis reports

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LEGAL AID CHANGES >>
CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2003 >>
QUEEN’S EVIDENCE >>

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Jean-François Le Gal

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Jean-François Le Gal

Penningtons Manches Cooper strengthens international disputes team with appointment of leading arbitration partner

Shakespeare Martineau—Aaron Sanders & Kate Saunders

Shakespeare Martineau—Aaron Sanders & Kate Saunders

Shakespeare Martineau strengthens trust and estates disputes team with new appointments

Bellevue Law—Shannon Moore

Bellevue Law—Shannon Moore

Bellevue Law strengthens employment disputes and international advisory capability with senior associate appointment

NEWS
Developers in areas with poorly performing councils can apply directly to the Planning Inspectorate for permission under section 62A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
More than 500 former rugby players can pursue brain injury claims despite serious failures to disclose documents ordered by the High Court
A divorced woman has secured funding to participate in her former husband’s inquest after the Legal Aid Agency reconsidered repeated refusals
The Thirlwall Inquiry has exposed a ‘complete failure’ to protect babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, but its recommendations must now be put into practice
MPs cannot simply resign their Commons seats. Instead, they take a nominal Crown office, usually the Chiltern Hundreds or Manor of Northstead, which disqualifies them from sitting
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