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Excalibur Ventures LLC v Texas Keystone Inc and other companies [2011] EWHC 1624 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 224 (Jun)

Jet2.com Ltd v Blackpool Airport Ltd [2011] EWHC 1529 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 06 (Jul)

Gard Marine & Energy Ltd v Tunnicliffe [2011] EWHC 1658 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 03 (Jul)

Sufi and another v United Kingdom [2011] ECHR 8319/07, [2011] All ER (D) 234 (Jun)

W v W (minor) (mirror order) [2011] EWCA Civ 703, [2011] All ER (D) 188 (Jun)

Re B (children) (adoption) [2011] EWCA Civ 729, [2011] All ER (D) 159 (Jun)

Murfin v Campbell [2011] EWHC 1475 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 190 (Jun)

Re Derfshaw Ltd and others [2011] EWHC 1565 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 144 (Jun)

IR (Sri Lanka) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 704, [2011] All ER (D) 145 (Jun)

A County Council v A mother and others [2011] EWHC 1267 (Fam), [2011] All ER (D) 95 (Jun)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

Winckworth Sherwood—Charlie Hancock

Winckworth Sherwood—Charlie Hancock

Private wealth and tax offering bolstered by partner hire

Browne Jacobson—Matthew Kemp

Browne Jacobson—Matthew Kemp

Firm grows real estate team with tenth partner hire this financial year

NEWS
The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round
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
The Ministry of Justice is once again in the dock as access to justice continues to deteriorate. NLJ consultant editor David Greene warns in this week's issue that neither public legal aid nor private litigation funding looks set for a revival in 2026
Civil justice lurches onward with characteristic eccentricity. In his latest Civil Way column, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist, surveys a procedural landscape featuring 19-page bundle rules, digital possession claims, and rent laws he labels ‘bonkers’
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
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