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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7431

02 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

All practitioners—claimant and defendant—should appreciate the new professional negligence trap set by Gibbon...

Jack Straw took the opportunity of his retirement from Labour’s front bench to publicise his forthcoming memoirs...

Sarah Johnson analyses employees gagging for a pay discussion

Why pensions merit attention throughout a divorce, explains Caroline Wright

Oil extraction & the Pointe Gourde principle: Mark Sefton & Oliver Radley-Gardner report

Kenneth Warner highlights the courts’ reluctance to invoke a duty of care for unconventional forms of damage

Julian Miller & Tom Pangbourne assess the dangers of tax avoidance schemes

Re D (statutory will) [2010] EWHC 2159 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 102 (Aug)

R (on the application of B) v Islington London Borough Council [2010] All ER (D) 97 (Aug)

R (on the application of B) v Islington London Borough Council [2010] All ER (D) 97 (Aug)

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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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