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R (on the application of Humberstone) v Legal Services Commission (The Lord Chancellor intervening) [2010] All ER (D) 255 (Dec), [2010] EWCA Civ 1479

Safeway Stores Ltd and others v Twigger and others [2010] EWCA Civ 1472, [2010] All ER (D) 245 (Dec)

Crema v Cenkos Securities plc [2010] EWCA Civ 1444, [2010] All ER (D) 212 (Dec)

Re Peacock [2010] EWCA Civ 1465, [2010] All ER (D) 240 (Dec)

Lomas and others v JFB Firth Rixson Inc and other companies [2010] EWHC 3372 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 248 (Dec)

ABC Ltd v Y [2010] EWHC 3176 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 83 (Dec)

Pindell Ltd and another v Airasia Berhad [2010] EWHC 3238 (Comm), [2010] All ER (D) 123 (Dec)

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v Doffman and another Re Stakefield (Midlands) Ltd and other companies [2010] EWHC 3175 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 89 (Dec)

R (on the application of Woolas) v The Parliamentary Election Court [2010] EWHC 3169 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 60 (Dec)

R (on the application of Tilianu) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2010] EWCA Civ 1397, [2010] All ER (D) 117 (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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