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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7405

18 February 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Sandra Walsh on coping with the rising tide of missing beneficiaries

Paul Hewitt & Paola Fudakowska report on codicils & statutory legacies

Janina Porter outlines when a Jersey Will is recommended

When sales patter becomes fraud—damages go sky high, say Matthew Lawson & Piers Elliott

Soaring fees; Drug addicts: bad news; Witness immunity; TOLATA beats AR

Malcolm Dowden on planning enforcement & immunity

Michael Feakes on a recent court decision which blew CFAs a fair wind

Drew v Whitbread [2010] EWCA Civ 53, [2010] All ER (D) 104 (Feb)

R (on the application of Ghai) v Newcastle City Council (Ramgharia Gurdwara, Hitchin and another intervening) [2010] EWCA Civ 59, [2010] All ER (D) 106 (Feb)

Rok Building Ltd v Celtic Composting Systems Ltd (No 2) [2010] EWHC 66 (TCC), [2010] All ER (D) 107 (Feb)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of 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 government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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