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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7596

28 February 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

The banks’ imposition of business support measures on small to medium-sized business have gone awry, a banking lawyer has warned.
 

In an exclusive series David Burrows puts the new family court under scrutiny & assesses its ability to deliver justice

What impact will the new European Medical Device Regulations have on UK medicine, asks Sarah Moore

Will proposed new legislation improve consumer rights? Karen Clubb reports

Alison Padfield considers the limits on the freedom to choose a lawyer

R (on the application of Hiri) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 254 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 165 (Feb)

British Telecommunicatons plc v Office of Communications [2014] EWCA Civ 133, [2014] All ER (D) 158 (Feb)

R (on the application of Cornwall Council) v Secretary of State for Health and others [2014] EWCA Civ 12, [2014] All ER (D) 170 (Feb)

Wall v Mutuelle de Poitiers Assurances [2014] EWCA Civ 138, [2014] All ER (D) 178 (Feb)

Softhouse Consulting Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2014] All ER (D) 224 (Feb)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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