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Update: construction

Anna Stillman considers 'without prejudice' negotiations, pleading a professional negligence claim, an adjudication enforcement case and the new Building Regulations

Winning combinations

If something seems odd then it probably is. In the five years I've now been working at Weightmans they have informed staff of associate and partner promotions at around the same time. This year there was a delay between the two emailed announcements, which led to choruses of 'I told you something was up' when it was announced, a few weeks back, that the firm is in merger talks.

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Sophie Khan talks shop

CAB closures loom amid council cuts

Legal advice centres will be forced to close as local authority funding is cut, the head of Citizens Advice has warned.

Garner considers appeal over Hampton Court development

Keith Garner is considering an appeal after the High Court rejected his legal challenge to the redevelopment of a site on the opposite bank of the Thames from Hampton Court Palace.

Children of failed asylum seeker can stay in UK, Supreme Court says

The children of a Tanzanian asylum seeker, who twice pretended to come from Somalia to stay in the UK, can remain in the country, the Supreme Court has ruled.

Commons rights ruling will undermine land values, solicitor says

A sole practitioner in Devon is preparing an appeal against a High Court ruling which he says could lead to subsidies being cut and land values undermined.

Internet puts surrogacy back on agenda

Changes to surrogacy laws could return to the parliamentary agenda after a ruling last week upholding a surrogate mother's decision not to hand over a baby that left the prospective parents childless and £4,500 out of pocket.