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Michael Zander on the Coronavirus Act 2020
David Lammy MP has been appointed Shadow Justice Secretary, in Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer’s reshuffle this week

Michael Zander asks, is President Trump above the law?

COVID-19 demands a longer transition & a clean EU referendum, say Amanda Robinson & David Wolchover
Neil Parpworth believes maiden speeches in the House of Commons in their current form are an extravagance which ought to come to an end
Geoffrey Bindman QC warns against attempts to alter longstanding constitutional arrangements & undermining the role & independence of the judiciary
What’s happening with Boris Johnson’s royal commission? Jon Robins investigates
Policy v principle: Dr Michael Arnheim puts the case for codification
Sixteen and 17-year-olds in Wales have been given the right to vote in Senedd (Welsh Assembly) elections
The Government’s legal programme does not answer the concerns of the profession’s leaders & may threaten judicial independence, says Geoffrey Bindman
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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