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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7589

10 January 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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