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01 January 2010
Categories: In-House , Podcasts / Webcasts , Legal News , Commercial
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NLJ newscast: company regulation & directors duties

To view the panel discussion please go to:

http://www.lexisauditorium.com/theatre.aspx?c=529

Held on 3 June 2010, panel participants:

• Carol Shutkever, Herbert Smith
• Lucy Fergusson, Linklaters.
• Frances Le Grys, Hogan Lovells

Topics covered include:

• The overhauling of the Combined Code and the spectre of annual director
re-election
• The post Walker landscape – practical observations
• The growing trend in shareholder engagement
• Directors’ duties and derivative actions: lessons to be learned from the case-law so far.

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Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

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NEWS
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
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
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