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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7534

16 October 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Roger Smith peruses the legal stories hitting the headlines

Is our right to protest under threat, asks Ruth Brander

Marital agreements: who’s got it right? Kate Molan & Sarah Caroline Boyle

Heather Beckett highlights the complexities of dental injuries & medical reporting agencies

Can a criminal squatter acquire title by adverse possession? Christopher Cant investigates

Victims of misleading & aggressive demands for payment need protection, say David Hertzell & Amy Smith

Bill Gibson emphasises the importance of file maintenance to costs recovery

Charlie Clarke-Jervoise explores the brave new world of costs management

Clive Thomas emphasises the importance of the careful drafting of Pt 36 offers

James Sharpe provides an update on costs protection & protected parties

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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