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Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7308

14 February 2008
IN THIS ISSUE

Roderick Ramage wonders whether lawyers should take the lead in promoting a new gender-neutral pronoun

Ledger v Wootton [2007] All ER (D) 99 (Oct), Boudh v Bodh [2007] EWCA Civ 1019, [2007] All ER (D) 384 (Oct)

Hoare could be a catalyst for further changes to limitation restrictions, says Paula Jefferson

Marchant v Dixon [2008] EWCA Civ 11, [2008] All ER (D) 160 (Jan)

Roger Smith muses on the conflict between divine and secular law.

Gloucestershire County Council v Evans and others [2008] EWCA Civ 21, [2008] All ER (D) 284 (Jan)

Paul Solon and Victoria Thompson consider how proposed changes to capital gains tax will affect non resident trusts

R v Clarke [2008] UKHL 8, [2008] All ER (D) 69 (Feb)

The ECtHR ruling in Boyle calls into question the rules surrounding pre-trial detention, say Tim Lawson-Cruttenden and Lacie Kerner

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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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