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In Hong Kong, the right to a fair trial is fast becoming hypothetical, with a recent police shooting case resulting in the gunshot victim convicted and given a heavy sentence for attacking officers with a paper cutter―despite the video evidence not supporting the prosecution case ‘at all’

In Hong Kong, the right to a fair trial is becoming increasingly hypothetical, argues Dr Ping-fat Sze

Anna Grishchenkova, Daniel Burbeary & Irina Buydova explore the impact of cultural & psychological differences in international dispute resolution

Neil Parpworth provides a recent example of the US Supreme Court’s approach to the expression of dissent

Europol has announced that, in collaboration with the FBI, Dutch National Police, Swedish Police Authority, the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and 16 other countries, ‘one of the largest and most sophisticated’ operations against encrypted criminal activities has been carried out

Should lawyers choose clients that match their own beliefs? They should not, says John Gould, senior partner at Russell-Cooke, in this week’s NLJ.

Lawyers must not be drawn into choosing cases based on their beliefs… or even worse, their prejudices, says John Gould

Behemoth case SKAT, brought by the Danish tax authorities in hot pursuit of £1.5bn lost in alleged dividend tax fraud, was one of the biggest civil litigation claims to come before the English courts, writes Rosenblatt senior associate Nick Leigh in this week’s NLJ.

A senior international judge will deliver this year’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Roebuck Lecture as a free-to-attend, virtual event available to all.

Justice is done. Michael Zander QC on the aftermath of the murder trial of Derek Chauvin

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Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Head of corporate promoted to director

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Firm strengthens international arbitration team with key London hire

Corker Binning—Priya Dave

FCA contentious financial regulation lawyer joins the team as of counsel

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NLJ this week: Making Big Tech pay for digital addiction

Social media giants should face tortious liability for the psychological harms their platforms inflict, argues Harry Lambert of Outer Temple Chambers in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: Leaseholders stuck in limbo

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024—once heralded as a breakthrough—has instead plunged leaseholders into confusion, warns Shabnam Ali-Khan of Russell-Cooke in this week’s NLJ

NLJ this week: When a trial period becomes a ‘reasonable adjustment’

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has now confirmed that offering a disabled employee a trial period in an alternative role can itself be a 'reasonable adjustment' under the Equality Act 2010: in this week's NLJ, Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve analyses the evolving case law

NLJ this week: Ignore covenants at your peril

Caroline Shea KC and Richard Miller of Falcon Chambers examine the growing judicial focus on 'cynical breach' in restrictive covenant cases, in this week's issue of NLJ

NLJ this week: Courts caught in a ‘hierarchy of privacy’

Ian Gascoigne of LexisNexis dissects the uneasy balance between open justice and confidentiality in England’s civil courts, in this week's NLJ. From public hearings to super-injunctions, he identifies five tiers of privacy—from fully open proceedings to entirely secret ones—showing how a patchwork of exceptions has evolved without clear design

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International justice

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Myers & Co—Jen Goodwin

Boies Schiller Flexner—Lindsay Reimschussel

Corker Binning—Priya Dave