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Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7316

10 April 2008
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When can individuals be extradited for pre-2003 cartel offences? Francesca Richmond reports

When should the finger be pointed at employers rather than medical staff? Andrew Harris investigates

Is the current UK insurance law out of step with the market? Kenneth McKenzie and Graham Ludlam consider possible areas of reform

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Unified criminal contract
serious crime measures
case law update

Should the government have the right to retain the DNA of all those arrested? asks Azeem Suterwalla and Sarah Hemingway

Heather Mills had the luxury of choosing whether or not to represent herself, but what about the plight of poorer litigants? asks Geoffrey Bindman

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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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