Is blasphemous libel a dead letter? Neil Parpworth investigates
Is there any hope for campaigners who want to see the ban on hunting with dogs overthrown? Neil Parpworth reports
Neil Parpworth presents the case for fixed-term Parliaments
Should the offence of outraging public decency be abolished? Neil Parpworth reports
Gordon Brown is right to attempt to re-engage Parliament and the general public in the legislative process, says Neil Parpworth
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Arc Pensions Law—Richard Meers
Pensions litigation team announces senior associate hire
Burges Salmon—Neil Demuth
Firm appoints new chief financial officer
Anthony Collins—Sue Bearman
Social purpose firm announces director hire plus eight promotions
NEWS
AlphaBiolabs has made a £500 donation to Sean’s Place, a men’s mental health charity based in Sefton, as part of its ongoing Giving Back initiative
Human rights lawyers, social justice champion, co-founder of the law firm Bindmans, and NLJ columnist Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC has died at the age of 92 years
RFC Seraing v FIFA, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) reaffirmed that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may be reviewed by EU courts on public-policy grounds, is under examination in this week's NLJ by Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law, Zurich
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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