header-logo header-logo

THIS ISSUE
Card image

Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7568

12 July 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

Non-compliant litigators will get short shrift, say Ed Lewis & Jennie Gillies

JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov and others [2013] EWHC 1869 (Comm), [2013] All ER (D) 28 (Jul)

Johnson v Lord Mayor and Citizens of Westminster [2013] EWCA Civ 773, [2013] All ER (D) 259 (Jun)

R (on the application of Jabarkhail) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 1798 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 54 (Jul)

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner North London [2013] EWHC 1786 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 269 (Jun)

Wood and another v Gorbunova and others [2013] EWHC 1935 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 83 (Jul)

R (on the application of Howard) v Official Receiver [2013] EWHC 1839 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 73 (Jul)

Westshield Civil Engineering Ltd and another company v Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd [2013] EWHC 1825 (TCC), [2013] All ER (D) 10 (Jul)

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

Call for expert panel to help avoid formal intervention into failing law firms

Show
10
Results
Results
10
Results

MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

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’ 
back-to-top-scroll