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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

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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