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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7592

31 January 2014
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Across the pond Premium Content

Roger Smith takes legal lessons from the US

31 January 2014 / Roger Smith
Step-parents: family or legal strangers? Premium Content

Lehna Hewitt & Camilla Fusco outline the legal implications of step-family relationships

31 January 2014 / Lehna Hewitt / Camilla Fusco
Going head to head Premium Content

Incompatible judgments on the same day have led to confusion over the scope of standard wording, says David Sandy

31 January 2014 / David Sandy
The lay of the land Premium Content

What does the year have in store for property law asks Martin Dray

31 January 2014 / Martin Dray
Damages—Assessment of damages—Fatal accidents Premium Content

Haxton v Philips Electronics UK Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 4, [2014] All ER (D) 138 (Jan)

31 January 2014
Family proceedings Premium Content

Re C (a child) (guidance on proceedings involving profoundly deaf parent) [2014] All ER (D) 128 (Jan)

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Trade marks Premium Content

Healey Sports Cars Switzerland Ltd v Jensen Cars Ltd [2014] EWHC 24 (Pat), [2014] All ER (D) 158 (Jan)

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Mental health Premium Content

IM v LM and others [2014] EWCA Civ 37, [2014] All ER (D) 150 (Jan)

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Value-added tax Premium Content

Fonecomp Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2013] UKUT 0599 (TCC), [2014] All ER (D) 126 (Jan)

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Wills Premium Content

Marley v Rawlings and another [2014] UKSC 2, [2014] All ER (D) 132 (Jan)

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NEWS
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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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