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Novasen SA v Alimenta SA [2011] All ER (D) 118 (Jan), [2011] EWHC 49 (Comm)

St Annes Distributors Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners, [2010] UKUT 458 (TCC), [2011] All ER (D) 45 (Jan)

Bonner and others v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2010] UKUT 450 (TCC), [2011] All ER (D) 49 (Jan)

O’Donoghue and others v United Kingdom [2010] ECHR 34848/07, [2011] All ER (D) 46 (Jan)

President’s Guidance (case management decisions and appeals therefrom) [2011] All ER (D) 36 (Jan)

Civil procedure
Re Branchempire Ltd, Rubin v Coote [2010] EWHC 3017 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 44 (Jan)

Carvalho v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Omar v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 1406, [2010] All ER (D) 166 (Dec)

Stellato v Ministry of Justice [2010] EWCA Civ 1435, [2010] All ER (D) 171 (Dec)

Osborn v Parole Board, Booth v Parole Board [2010] EWCA Civ 1409, [2010] All ER (D) 185 (Dec)

R (on the application of Edwards and another) v Environment Agency (Cemex UK Cement Ltd, intervening) [2010] UKSC 57, [2010] All ER (D) 183 (Dec)

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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

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

Sports disputes practice launchedwith partner appointment

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans

Tax and succession planning offering expands with returning partner

NEWS
The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round
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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