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Kerry Underwood

Chairman

Kerry Underwood, chairman, Underwood Solicitors (www.underwoods-solicitors.co.uk; @kerry_underwood

Chairman

Kerry Underwood, chairman, Underwood Solicitors (www.underwoods-solicitors.co.uk; @kerry_underwood

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Kerry Underwood recommends some summer reading & top tips for the new Lord Chancellor

A play by Kerry Underwood

Costs orders: who pays & when, asks Kerry Underwood

    Kerry Underwood examines qualified one-way costs shifting

    Kerry Underwood assesses guideline hourly rates

    Kerry Underwood discusses proportionality in costs

    Kerry Underwood concludes his 60th birthday tour with a master class on small claims, portals & Pt 36

    Why is everyone ignoring the obvious when it comes to ABSs? Kerry Underwood can’t hide his disbelief

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    MOVERS & SHAKERS

    Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

    Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

    Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice

    Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

    Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

    Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team

    Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

    Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

    Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

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    Law firm HFW is offering clients lawyers on call for dawn raids, sanctions issues and other regulatory emergencies
    From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act
    Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
    Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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