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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7589

10 January 2014

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Is virtual witness testimony legal fact or largely fiction, asks Penny Cooper

John McMullen surveys cases on service provision change, transfer of employment rights, & objection to transfer

Confidentiality, privacy & disclosure: David Burrows examines the duty of disclosure under common law in the second of two articles

Siobhan Jones discusses the benefits & burdens of covenants

Bring judicial review claims promptly, warns Nicholas Dobson

R (on the application of Hodkin and another) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages [2013] UKSC 77, [2013] All ER (D) 100 (Dec)

Child sort-of-support, credit hire defence win, pay cut for experts & Mitchell: what else?

Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners C-495/12, [2013] All ER (D) 203 (Dec)

Wallace and another v Calmac Ferries Ltd UKEATS/0014/13/BI, [2013] All ER (D) 242 (Dec)

R (on the application of Secretary of State for Home Department) v Southwark Crown Court [2013] All ER (D) 197 (Dec)

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London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders

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

NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do

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

Your magistrates’ court needs you!

Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process

NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed

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’

NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits

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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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7589

MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Foot Anstey—five promotions