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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7494

13 December 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Jennifer James presents the Ghost of Christmas Trees Past

DWF has promoted eight of its lawyers as partners or directors.

Jamie Maples, a lawyer at Weil Gotshal & Manges, has been made partner...

Taylor Wessing has hired partner Joanne Kelly from Manches.

Rosamond McDowell has replaced Andrew Dixon as head of Collyer Bristow’s market tax and estate planning practice.

HLE blogger Deborah L Parry wonders if supermarkets are off their trollies

“World-leading” court complex launches on London’s Fetter Lane

Marketing opportunities missed through ignorance of social media

APIL calls for employers' liability insurance bureau

Supreme Court to hear Prudential v HMRC appeal

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Freeths—Ruth Clare

Freeths—Ruth Clare

National real estate team bolstered by partner hire in Manchester

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Farrer & Co—Claire Gordon

Partner appointed head of family team

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

mfg Solicitors—Neil Harrison

Firm strengthens agriculture and rural affairs team with partner return

NEWS
Conveyancing lawyers have enjoyed a rapid win after campaigning against UK Finance’s decision to charge for access to the Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling has reopened debate on the availability of ‘user damages’ in competition claims. Writing in NLJ this week, Edward Nyman of Hausfeld explains how the CAT allowed Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen’s alternative damages case against Meta to proceed, rejecting arguments that such damages are barred in competition law
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