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Issue: Vol 158, Issue 7320

08 May 2008
IN THIS ISSUE

What is “risk management”? >>
Risk appetite >>
Information management >>

News In brief

News In Brief

Re F (a child) (placement order) [2008] EWCA Civ 439, [2008] All ER (D) 09 (May)

Burden and another v United Kingdom (App No 13378/05) [2008] All ER (D) 391 (Apr)

Removal of Executor

WSPA, BUAV and Advocates for Animals v Bowman (Unreported) January 2008

News

Bloody Laws >> Bank charges here to stay >> Friendship the Mckenzie way >> Commercial debt interest ruling >> sex discriminators hit for six

John Fordham explains how devastating freezing injunctions can be

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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