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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7434

23 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Sacker & Partners LLP has announced the launch of its governance team, created to promote best practice in the area of scheme governance.

HBJ Gateley Wareing has appointed a new business development and marketing director, Neil Armstrong.

Ledingham Chalmers Aberdeen based lawyers have taken part in WildHearts in Action’s annual “WolfTrek” fundraising walk, raising over £4,500.

Abney Garsden McDonald, has been nominated as a finalist in the 2010 British Computer Society (BSC) UK IT Industry Awards.

Joe Bryant counts the cost of improved legal regulation

The LSC has narrowed the options for access to justice. Linda Lee explains why the profession must fight back

Cyril Adjei examines the complexities of hypothetical comparators

Richard Scorer asks who cares best? Home or hospice?

Malcolm Dowden & Simon Ewing discuss issues affecting the coalition government’s energy objectives

John Benstead explains why industry needs to be armed & ready for the Bribery Act

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

Sports disputes practice launchedwith partner appointment

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans

Tax and succession planning offering expands with returning partner

NEWS
The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round
Early determination is no longer a novelty in arbitration. In NLJ this week, Gustavo Moser, arbitration specialist lawyer at Lexis+, charts the global embrace of summary disposal powers, now embedded in the Arbitration Act 1996 and mirrored worldwide. Tribunals may swiftly dismiss claims with ‘no real prospect of succeeding’, but only if fairness is preserved
The Ministry of Justice is once again in the dock as access to justice continues to deteriorate. NLJ consultant editor David Greene warns in this week's issue that neither public legal aid nor private litigation funding looks set for a revival in 2026
Civil justice lurches onward with characteristic eccentricity. In his latest Civil Way column, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, surveys a procedural landscape featuring 19-page bundle rules, digital possession claims, and rent laws he labels ‘bonkers’
Can a chief constable be held responsible for disobedient officers? Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth, professor of public law at De Montfort University, examines a Court of Appeal ruling that answers firmly: yes
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