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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7607

23 May 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

What impact will the Jackson reforms have on international litigants’ views of the English court system, asks Nicholas Heaton

Kirstie Gibson considers allegations of non-disclosure, misconduct & adverse inferences

 Jonathan Steinert & Paris Aboro examine the Supreme Court’s approach to the rectification of a will

Henrietta Mason & Paola Fudakowska provide a wills & probate update

Special educational needs provision is facing its most significant change for 30 years, says Richard Freeth

Google Spain SL and another v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and another Case C-131/12

David Niven & David O’Brien consider the obstacles ahead for PII claimants

"Darling’s chief crime was what Bacon called a lack of gravity; for more modern readers he seems to have been something of a David Brent"

Ian Wise QC & Martha Spurrier defend the Supreme Court's judgment in Cheshire West

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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