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The rise of litigants in person: Clare Hughes-Williams sets out how to respond to this growing challenge
Vanessa Friend & Robert Jackson examine Timokhin v Timokhina & the dangers of jurisdiction

Daniel Bacon hails the rental revolution, assesses pros and cons for both sides and predicts clogged-up tribunals

Fern Schofield & Gwyneth Everson provide a round-up of recent decisions, offering practical guidance on possession claims, statutory interpretation & evidential pitfalls

Could a Privy Council decision loosen the bonds which have tied down the tort of private nuisance for so long? Richard Buckley reports

Patients are being kept in the dark about their right to independent complaints, reports Charles Davey
That Act; ADR accreditation; Revised PI guidelines
Jon Felce investigates why England & Wales remains the forum of choice for international litigants

Roger Lush & Lara Elder examine the state of UK and EU trade mark law, ten years post-Brexit

Can the court permit a landlord to force entry? Edward Blakeney & Ashpen Rajah weigh up the current arguments

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DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

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Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

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Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

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NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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  • Litigators digesting Mazur are being urged to tighten oversight and compliance. In his latest 'Insider' column for NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School provides a cut out and keep guide to the ruling’s core test: whether an unauthorised individual is ‘in truth acting on behalf of the authorised individual’
  • Global firm Dentons could be forced to return to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) over its vetting of a client inherited from its merger with French firm Salans, following a Court of Appeal decision
  • Family law chambers 4 Brick Court will move to join 42BR Barristers this summer to create the largest single-site chambers in England and Wales, with more than 150 barristers
  • Former joint head of chambers at One Garden Court, Lord Justice Stephen Cobb has succeeded Sir Andrew McFarlane as president of the Family Division
  • National military team expands in Leeds with legal director appointment
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