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Dominic Regan casts a wry eye over some unusual cases..

An opposite-sex couple is filing an application for a civil partnership at London’s Islington Registry Office.

Important terms in agreements should be flagged up, not hidden in small print

Firms need to do more than tick the diversity boxes in today's market, says Margaret Mannell

Peter Hungerford-Welch, associate dean, The City Law School, City University London. W www.city.ac.uk/law
 

Switalski v F&C Asset Management Plc [2009] All ER (D) 06 (Jan)

Law Alderson v Wings Aeromedical Services Ltd [2009] All ER (D) 11 (Jan)

Solicitors claim the silk selection procedure is biased towards barristers and too costly and time consuming to complete. 

Neary v Governing Body of St Albans Girls’ School [2009] All ER (D) 30 (Jan)

Most practitioners will already be aware of the decision in Johnston v NEI International Combustion Ltd; Rothwell v Chemical & Insulating Co Ltd; Topping v Benchtown Ltd; Grieves v F T Everard & Sons [2007] UKHL 39, [2007] 4 All ER 1047.

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Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

Morr & Co—Dennis Phillips

International private client team appoints expert in Spanish law

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning

NLJ Career Profile: Stefan Borson, McCarthy Denning

Stefan Borson, football finance expert head of sport at McCarthy Denning, discusses returning to the law digging into the stories behind the scenes

NEWS
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
In this week's NLJ, Robert Hargreaves and Lily Johnston of York St John University examine the Employment Rights Bill 2024–25, which abolishes the two-year qualifying period for unfair-dismissal claims
Writing in NLJ this week, Manvir Kaur Grewal of Corker Binning analyses the collapse of R v Óg Ó hAnnaidh, where a terrorism charge failed because prosecutors lacked statutory consent. The case, she argues, highlights how procedural safeguards—time limits, consent requirements and institutional checks—define lawful state power
Michael Zander KC, emeritus professor at LSE, revisits his long-forgotten Crown Court Study (1993), which surveyed 22,000 participants across 3,000 cases, in the first of a two-part series for NLJ
Getty Images v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) was a landmark test of how UK law applies to AI training—but does it leave key questions unanswered, asks Emma Kennaugh-Gallagher of Mewburn Ellis in NLJ this week
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