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24 April 2015
Issue: 7649 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Manea v Institutia Prefectului judetul Brasov—Serviciul Public Comunitar Regim de Permise de Conducere si Inmatriculare a Vehiculelor C-76/14, [2015] All ER (D) 75 (Apr)

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Art 110 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be interpreted as: not precluding a member state from introducing a tax on motor vehicles which was levied on imported second-hand vehicles at the time of their first registration in that member state and on vehicles already registered in that member state at the time of the first transfer, within that member state, of the ownership of those vehicles; precluding that member state from exempting from that tax vehicles already registered and in respect of which a tax had previously been in force but found to be incompatible with EU law had been paid.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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