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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7457

17 March 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

SNG has appointed property law expert Germaine Peters to its expanding team

The Institute of Legal Executives recently celebrated reaching the landmark of the appointment of the first 100 legal executive partners and the first legal executive judge.

Sacker & Partners has promoted Claire van Rees to associate.

Solicitor and business woman Joy Van-Cooten has been appointed as the new chair of the association of women solicitors (AWS) at its annual general meeting.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s speech, ‘Restoring Civil Liberties’, delivered before an audience of libel reform hopefuls in January...

The last few years have seen significant changes to the legal market. Increased competition from high street names such as the Co-operative and Halifax...

How flexible are you, asks Sarah Johnson

Barbara Hewson discusses the Court of Appeal’s latest ruling on deprivation of liberty

Are mesothelioma claims a lost cause for defendants? Jonathan de Rohan reports

Nicholas Dobson tackles Teckal

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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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