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Khawar Qureshi QC considers the enforcement of a foreign judgment against a sovereign state

Has the Supreme Court closed the s 18 door? asks Paul Heeley

In-house counsel are under pressure to protect against e-disclosure slip-ups, says Deborah Blaxell

Patience, please...Judges are still summarily assessing costs in civil and family cases on the strength of interim hourly guideline rates which came into operation on 1 January 2009.

Professional negligence litigation comes in fashions. One of the latest arises from the vogue for after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance obtained, usually by claimants on conditional fee agreements, as protection against any eventual liability to pay the defendants’ costs.

Michael Feakes on a recent court decision which blew CFAs a fair wind

Tony Allen & Dr Karl Mackie question why Jackson LJ has shied away from formally endorsing mediation

What can be salvaged from the wreckage of insolvency? Michael Frisby & Oliver Lawson report

Roger Smithers resolves some Pt 52 conundrums

Tribunal awards down; bank charge claims set to revive; ruling on missing credit agreement defence

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

Haynes Boone—Jeremy Cross

Firm strengthens global fund finance practice with London partner hire.

DWF—Stephen Webb

DWF—Stephen Webb

Partner and head of national planning team appointed

mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

mfg Solicitors—Nick Little

Corporate team expands in Birmingham with partner hire

NEWS
The High Court’s refusal to recognise a prolific sperm donor as a child’s legal parent has highlighted the risks of informal conception arrangements, according to Liam Hurren, associate at Kingsley Napley, in NLJ this week
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Mazur may have settled questions around litigation supervision, but the profession should not simply ‘move on’, argues Jennifer Coupland, CEO of CILEX, in this week's NLJ
A simple phrase like ‘subject to references’ may not protect employers as much as they think. Writing in NLJ this week, Ian Smith, barrister and emeritus professor of employment law at UEA, analyses recent employment cases showing how conditional job offers can still create binding contracts

An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ

Medical reporting organisation fees have become ‘the final battleground’ in modern costs litigation, says Kris Kilsby, costs lawyer at Peak Costs and council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers, in this week's NLJ
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