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Year End

31 January 2008 / Brice Dickson
Issue: 7306 / Categories: Features , Legal services , Procedure & practice , Profession
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The judicial arm of the House of Lords is still on course to be transmuted into the Supreme Court of the UK in October 2009.

The judicial arm of the House of Lords is still on course to be transmuted into the Supreme Court of the in October 2009. It will be interesting to see whether the working methods and adjudication standards of the top court will in any way change once it moves across

Parliament Square
and leaves the trappings of the behind. Meanwhile the law lords continue to ply their trade as an appellate committee. This article gives a snapshot of their output during 2007.

The lords of appeal issued 58 decisions ([2007] UKHL 1 to [2007] UKHL 58), two more than in 2006 but some way short of the record high of 74 in 2005. For present purposes a “decision” means a case with a single judgment or set of judgments, even though it may involve more than one appeal. In fact the 58 decisions in 2007 embraced a total

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

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Keoghs—four appointments

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Brabners—Ben Lamb

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NEWS
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From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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