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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7425

06 July 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Gripple Ltd v Revenue & Customs Commissioners [2010] EWHC 1609 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 263 (Jun)

Metropolitan Housing Trust v Hadjazi [2010] EWCA Civ 750, [2010] All ER (D) 09 (Jul)

Mayor of London v Hall and others [2010] EWHC 1613 (QB), [2010] All ER (D) 254 (Jun)

CoreLegal a new support network for solicitors and barristers launched last week.

Sir Mark Waller will join Serle Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Panel as an arbitrator and mediator.

Simon Halberstam has joined Kingsley Napley as partner within their expanding corporate and commercial team.

Ruby Wax presented LexisNexis with the Best Use of Technology award at the recent inaugural Conference Awards

Fourteen hundred solicitors, barristers and in-house lawyers were present to see comedian Michael McIntyre host The Lawyer awards last month at the Grosvenor, London.

David McGrady has been named as the 47th president of the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX).

Tom Morrison has been appointed as a partner in Rollits’ commercial group (now an LLP).

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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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