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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7597

07 March 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Pressure on home secretary to hold an inquiry

Warning over rising number of flood claims

Richard Scorer & Lizanne Gumbel QC discuss the liability of local authorities for foster carers

How do the courts treat post-separation earnings? Robert Micklem & Lucy Marks report

A recent Court of Appeal ruling provides important clarification on the validity of s 21 notices, as Mathew McDermott reports

Makudi v Baron Triesman of Tottenham [2014] EWCA Civ 179

BDMS Ltd v Rafael Advanced Defence Systems [2014] EWHC 451 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 244 (Feb)

MB Garden Buildings Ltd v Mark Burton Construction Ltd and another [2014] EWHC 431 (IPEC), [2014] All ER (D) 276 (Feb)

Stone Brewer LLP v Just Costs Ltd [2014] EWHC 219 (QB), [2014] All ER (D) 265 (Feb)

Coventry and others v Lawrence and another [2014] UKSC 13, [2014] All ER (D) 245 (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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