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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7465

12 May 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Finers Stephens Innocent LLP has hired three new partners. Rachael Spalton, Adam Walford and Simon Malkiel joined the firm on 1 May.

Part 2: Jon Robins continues his predictions on how deregulation will affect the legal services market

Could time be up for the Taplin test, asks Mark Benney

Will a Victorian statute prevent local councils selling off our museums & libraries to make ends meet? Paul Letman investigates

Christopher Stirling reports on setting aside dispositions to third parties in matrimonial proceedings

Boris Cetnik & Malcolm Keen reflect on the ramifications of Baker v Quantum

Andy Creer & John de Waal consider the effect of the decision in Murphy v Wyatt

Feed-in tariffs: thinking big, or redefining small, asks Malcolm Dowden

Mensch und Natur AG v Freistaat Bayern C-327/09, [2011] All ER (D) 23 (May)

Barr and others v Biffa Waste Services Ltd [2011] EWHC 1003 (TCC), [2011] All ER (D) 25 (May)

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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
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority 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
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
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