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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7562

30 May 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

Roger Smith casts an eye over the comings & goings in the legal world

Philip Henson reviews the government consultation on fee remissions for the courts & tribunals

Ian Smith considers spent convictions, TUPE transfer affected employees & the enforceability of collective agreements

International comity prevents disclosure of prosecution documents in family proceedings, as David Burrows reports

Jonathan Aspinall reports from the Court of Appeal on hesitation, liability and costs

Big matches in tenancy litigation, the guest list from hell & beware the client

Hide v The Steeplechase Co (Cheltenham) Ltd and others [2013] EWCA Civ 545

Shindler v United Kingdom (App No 19840/09) [2013] ECHR 19840/09, [2013] All ER (D) 239 (May)

IG Markets Ltd v Crinion and another [2013] EWCA Civ 587, [2013] All ER (D) 272 (May)

DR v GR and others [2013] EWHC 1196 (Fam), [2013] All ER (D) 230 (May)

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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
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
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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