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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7522

10 July 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Kerry Underwood balks at the transformation of legal “clients” into “consumers”

Achieving judicial diversity may require more work than is envisaged, suggests Geoffrey Bindman QC

Gross misconduct is no barrier to pay in lieu of notice, notes Anna Macey

Can information disclosed in family proceedings be released to particular individuals or bodies, asks David Burrows

In the second of two articles, Jon Holbrook considers fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies for housing associations

Briscoe v Tilt [2012] All ER (D) 09 (Jul)

Ali v Hoque [2012] EWCA Civ 274, [2012] All ER (D) 44 (Jul)

Hearst Communications Inc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-344/09 [2012] All ER (D) 22 (Jul)

R (on the application of Omar and others) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2012] EWHC 1737 (Admin), [2012] All ER (D) 06 (Jul)

Mayer v Hoar [2012] EWHC 1805 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 46 (Jul)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

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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