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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7589

10 January 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Qantas Cabin Crew (UK) Ltd v Alsopp and others UKEAT/0318/13/SM, [2013] All ER (D) 246 (Dec)

R (on the application of London Borough of Islington and others) v Mayor of London and others [2013] EWHC 4142 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 224 (Dec)

Re Storm Funding Ltd (in Administration) [2013] EWHC 4019 (Ch), [2013] All ER (D) 217 (Dec)

The Big Four accountancy firms engage with government, why not law firms, asks Simon Goldie

Caroline Field predicts some of the litigation challenges for the year ahead

What does 2014 hold for the Jackson reforms, asks Dominic Regan

Lawyers' support charity reports rise in cases

Weightmans' apprentices star in film

Salary & equity partners to be impacted by changes to the status of LLP members

Master of the Rolls expects speedier resolution of defamation disputes

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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