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Legal Services Board invites applications for panel spots

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has announced that it is accepting applications to join its panel of legal advisers. The regulator says it requires assistance in public and private law, legislative drafting and litigation support on a fixed or capped fee basis.
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Taylor Hampton's Mark Lewis serves phone-hacking claims against Mirror

Taylor Hampton's Mark Lewis has filed four phone-hacking claims against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), with the claims representing the first legal action to be launched against a newspaper group other than News International (NI). Lewis filed the claims in the High Court yesterday (22 October) on behalf of former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, former Blackburn Rovers captain Garry Flitcroft, and the Beckham family's former nanny Abbie Gibson.
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Addleshaws' Berezovsky earnings reach £50m as Bar fees also emerge

Addleshaw Goddard has received around £50m in fees from its representation of Boris Berezovsky over the last four years, as details of the Russian oligarch's £20m fees to the Bar have also emerged. The UK top 20 law firm has generated total fee income of £50m since taking on the mandate in January 2009, including a £15m success fee relating to Berezovsky's recent settlement with the family of now-deceased Georgian billionaire, Arkady 'Badri' Patarkatsishvili.
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Let's play master and servant: the curious relationship between barrister and clerk

"There is a well-known clerking phrase 'when a barrister is busy it's because they are brilliant, when they are quiet it's because their clerk isn't doing enough'..."
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Berezovsky agrees to near-£40m payout of legal costs

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has agreed to pay £35m of Roman Abramovich's £40m legal costs today (12 October) following his high-profile litigation defeat to the Chelsea FC owner earlier this year. Berezovsky, who has been represented by Addleshaw Goddard on the long-running litigation since 2008, has agreed to pay the majority of Abramovich's costs after losing the $6bn (£3.8bn) court battle.
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Legal Week Law - quarterly peer review

A round-up of the best legal briefings on Legal Week Law in the past three months
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(Another) Bar Standards Board faux pas?

Baroness Deech, the chair of the Bar Standards Board (BSB), recently gave an interesting speech on legal education and legal regulation. It appears from the text of the speech that it was given to a group of South African lawyers. It begins: "There is no more appropriate nation than S. Africa in which to examine legal education and the lawyers that it produces." I ask every lawyer reading this blog to pause and think of the most famous South African lawyer.
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Court of Appeal clarifies 10% damages uplift stance after ABI challenge

Claimants with conditional fee arrangements (CFAs) drawn up before 1 April 2013 will not benefit from the 10% increase in damages payouts set to come into effect next year, following a ruling handed down today (10 October). In today's judgment in Simmons v Castle, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has clarified that claimants with existing CFAs will not be eligible to benefit from both the recovery of their success fees and after-the-event (ATE) insurance available under current legislation, as well as the 10% increase in damage payouts set to take effect in 2013.
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High-profile judge suspended from judiciary following arrest

High-profile judge Constance Briscoe has been suspended from the judiciary pending a police investigation into allegations against her. Briscoe is understood to have been arrested in Clapham last weekend by officers from Kent police service and is currently released on bail.
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Reed Smith recruits Holman Fenwick partner duo for Singapore launch

Reed Smith has opened a four-partner office in Singapore, with two lateral hires from Holman Fenwick Willan and a number of relocations. The new office is Reed Smith's fourth in Asia, and adds to its presence in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. It will be headed by arbitration partner Gautam Bhattacharyya, who relocates from London.
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