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Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7308

14 February 2008
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Employment Rights (Increase of Limits) Order 2007 (SI 2007/3570)

R v Y [2008] EWCA Crim 10, [2008] All ER (D) 199 (Jan)

R (on the application of Walker) v Secretary of State for Justice; R (on the application of James) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWCA Civ 30, [2008] All ER (D) 15 (Feb)

Re Trinity Mirror Plc and others (A and B (Minors, acting by the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court) Intervening) [2008] EWCA Crim 50, [2008] All ER (D) 12 (Feb)

R v Yam [2008] All ER (D) 212 (Jan)

R (on the application of Torres) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2007] EWHC 3212 (Admin), [2007] All ER (D) 234 (Dec)

Paul Sharpe bemoans the lack of regulation in willwriting

Second home owners are not well served by capital gains tax legislation, says Michael Waterworth

Legal Aid

Are Criminal Records Bureau checks too onerous? asks Helen Hart

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of litigation and dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts

An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

Medical reporting organisation fees have become ‘the final battleground’ in modern costs litigation, says Kris Kilsby, costs lawyer at Peak Costs and council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, in this week's NLJ
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