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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

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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