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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7517

06 June 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

David Greene warns of the danger of focusing on the cost of legal services

Deborah Evans questions the rationale behind the proposed portal extension

Rob Weir QC & Vijay Ganapathy examine a parent company’s liability to an employee of its subsidiary

David Regan takes the reins of the debate surrounding liability for horse-related injuries

Geraldine Morris advises a cautious approach to clean-break orders

They have just become more readily available. The High Court and county courts are now empowered to make a charging order without any default under an instalment judgment...

Khawar Qureshi QC highlights the key Arbitration Act 1996 decisions in 2011

R (on the application of KM) (by his mother and litigation friend) v Cambridgeshire County Council [2012] UKSC 23, [2012] All ER (D) 254 (May)

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Charman and another [2012] EWHC 1448 (Fam), [2012] All ER (D) 256 (May)

Disclosure control: are you ready for the big bang next year, asks HH Judge Simon Brown QC

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Behind the profession’s polished exterior, lawyers are ‘internally drained rather than physically tired’, according to a stark assessment of burnout in legal practice
Five years after the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 came into force, concerns remain that the family courts continue to minimise allegations of abuse in child contact disputes
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
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