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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

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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