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The Week on Defero Law, 10th Feb, 2012

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The UK Bar seem to have gone mad for Defero Law this week. A special hello to the following:

Hardwicke Commercial, Insurance, Property & Private Client and Public Law barristers chambers in London, UK
Danny O'Brien Senior Clerk at Arden Chambers in London, UK.
Sarah Tune Marketing Manager at St John's Chambers in Bristol.
Justin Hugheston Roberts Barrister from the Chambers of Patrick Upward QC in London, UK.
Stuart Hall Senior Clerk at Northampton Chambers in Northampton, UK.
Ellie Hurst Marketing Manager at Advent IM in the Midlands, UK.

Best of the week's blog posts

Carol Ann Markham promotes Barristerlink.com - a new venture launched earlier this year and one that solicitors or law firms looking to contact barristers might find useful. Read more in Solicitors can now check the availability of 685 barristers in one ...

Proposed changes by the government to the compensation system will attack the rights of injured people and add insult to injury just when they are at their most vulnerable. So says Adam Manning in Government Attacks on Justice.

David Sprake discusses legal comaprison websites in Legal review websites post Solicitors from hell....

Professionals in Law can hear the celebratory back-slapping for miles around. McGrigors and Pinsents have agreed to merge. For those leading the pre-merger negotiations, this must feel like the end of a long road. But is it a case of Merger Most Foul?

Richard Burcher on Legal 'Costs' - A Dickensian Turn of Phrase. Richard reckons the semantics of 'costs' are not really a big deal relative to the much larger and more pressing issues facing us but then again, maybe not. Maybe it continues to illustrate how egocentric and inward looking our approach to pricing our work has been for many years.

Lanyon Bowdler have Concerns over Metal on Metal Hip Replacements

Kerry Quinn asks if Twitter is The Real Villain in Harris Dismissal?

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