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R (on the application of Andrews) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2014] EWHC 1435 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 72 (May)

R (on the application of Newby Foods Ltd) v Food Standards Agency (No 7) [2014] EWHC 1340 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 49 (May)

Mughal v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2014] EWHC 1371 (QB), [2014] All ER (D) 47 (May)

R (on the application of JF (by her litigation friend RW)) v NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group [2014] EWHC 1345 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 38 (May)

Assuranceforeningen Gard Gjensidig v The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund 1971 [2014] EWHC 1394 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 74 (May)

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services UK Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2014] UKUT 0200 (TCC), [2014] All ER (D) 51 (May)

Barnes (as former court appointed receiver) v The Eastenders Group and another [2014] UKSC 26, [2014] All ER (D) 63 (May)

Re Olympus UK Ltd and others [2014] EWHC 1350 (Ch), [2014] All ER (D) 12 (May)

Pohotovost s. r. o. v Vašuta C-470/12, [2014] All ER (D) 31 (May)

Lyreco Belgium NV v Rogiers C-588/12, [2014] All ER (D) 32 (May)

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NEWS
Can a chief constable be held responsible for disobedient officers? Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth, professor of public law at De Montfort University, examines a Court of Appeal ruling that answers firmly: yes
Neurotechnology is poised to transform contract law—and unsettle it. Writing in NLJ this week, Harry Lambert, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, and Dr Michelle Sharpe, barrister at the Victorian Bar, explore how brain–computer interfaces could both prove and undermine consent
Comparators remain the fault line of discrimination law. In this week's NLJ, Anjali Malik, partner at Bellevue Law, and Mukhtiar Singh, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, review a bumper year of appellate guidance clarifying how tribunals should approach ‘actual’ and ‘evidential’ comparators. A new six-stage framework stresses a simple starting point: identify the treatment first
In cross-border divorces, domicile can decide everything. In NLJ this week, Jennifer Headon, legal director and head of international family, Isobel Inkley, solicitor, and Fiona Collins, trainee solicitor, all at Birketts LLP, unpack a Court of Appeal ruling that re-centres nuance in jurisdiction disputes. The court held that once a domicile of choice is established, the burden lies on the party asserting its loss
Early determination is no longer a novelty in arbitration. In NLJ this week, Gustavo Moser, arbitration specialist lawyer at Lexis+, charts the global embrace of summary disposal powers, now embedded in the Arbitration Act 1996 and mirrored worldwide. Tribunals may swiftly dismiss claims with ‘no real prospect of succeeding’, but only if fairness is preserved
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