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03 March 2023 / John Cooper KC
Issue: 8015 / Categories: Features , Media
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Time for a movie night? John Cooper KC runs through the latest legal films in the cinemas & at home

The BFI London Film Festival, held every year in October, has a track record of predicting the films which are going to take the next year by storm. Given that these movies tend to be released about now, it is perhaps time to get your diaries out and plan your viewing schedule.

Till

Till, released in the UK in January 2023, is a film based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who fought for justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till in 1955.

The facts which form the basis of this film are both brutal and harrowing. Emmett, a personable and popular young Black man, was wrongfully accused of going into a shop in Mississippi and harassing a White woman. That night as he slept in his bed, a lynch mob of White men forced their way into

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
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Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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