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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7576

20 September 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

John McMullen investigates the changing landscape of collective redundancy law

If someone fails to buy land by the agreed date, when can the other party terminate the contract? Daniel Gatty reports

Nicholas Dobson revisits the Highways Act regarding overlapping powers

How far will warring couples go to secure jurisdiction, asks Anna Heenan

Interfish Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2013] UKUT 0336 (TCC), [2013] All ER (D) 22 (Sep)

Czarnecki v Choice Textiles Ltd UKEAT/0331/12/GE, [2013] All ER (D) 77 (Sep)

Re A (children) (jurisdiction: return of child) [2013] UKSC 60, [2013] All ER (D) 66 (Sep)

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co (Europe) Ltd and another company v The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime [2013] EWHC 2734 (Comm), [2013] All ER (D) 96 (Sep)

Post-Mitchell, it’s time to take budgeting seriously, says Murray Heining

John O’Hare's 10-point guide to drafting a costs budget for the first CMC

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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’ 
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