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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7586

29 November 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

Human rights lawyer is honoured in NYC

Bernard Pressman analyses the “new” approach of the courts to applications for relief from sanctions

Challenging a local authority on procedural grounds can prove difficult, as Tim Spencer-Lane reports

When does a failure to prosecute health & safety violations breach human rights? Kate Beattie reports

Threlfall v ECD Insight Ltd and another [2013] EWCA Civ 1444, [2013] All ER (D) 195 (Nov)

Preparados Alimenticos, SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-377/10, [2013] All ER (D) 218 (Nov)

Re L (leave to oppose making of adoption order) [2013] EWCA Civ 1481, [2013] All ER (D) 264 (Nov)

Dixons Retail plc v Revenue and Customs Commissioners C-494/12, [2013] All ER (D) 239 (Nov)

Venn v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others [2013] EWHC 3546 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 202 (Nov)

Douglas v Ministry of Justice [2013] EWHC 3640 (QB), [2013] All ER (D) 253 (Nov)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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