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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7560

17 May 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

National law firm Gorman Hamilton has rebranded and will be known as True Personal Injury Solicitors.

Birmingham law firm The Wilkes Partnership has merged with Solihull-based Williamson & Soden solicitors.

David Greene predicts where the main areas of dispute will arise as a result of the civil litigation shake up

The inability to afford expert evidence will impact complex family cases warns Cara Nuttall
 

Mark Whitcombe concludes his examination of the employment tribunal’s approach to striking out

Is it time the two-year cohabitation requirement was removed from the Fatal Accidents Act? Jonathan Herring reports

How does an English court decide if a claimant will be unable to obtain a fair trial abroad, asks Ross Rymkiewicz

HSBC Bank v Tambrook Jersey Ltd [2013] EWHC 866 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 116 (Apr)
 

Y v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 860 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 236 (Apr)
 

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-145/12, [2013] All ER (D) 73 (May)
 

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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