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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7616

25 July 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Andrea Leadsom MP welcomes the consensus to bring insurance contract law into the 21st century

Lehna Hewitt examines the court’s approach to financial provision following an overseas divorce

Nick Pargeter & Malcolm Keen welcome Court of Appeal guidance on limitation & disease

Deborah Caldwell explains why tenants’ lawyers should think carefully about ownership & removal rights of tenants’ trade fixtures

Swaps mis-selling litigation is not over yet, says David Pope

Tom Morrison & David White review the world of information law

Central Trading & Exports Ltd v Fioralba Shipping Company [2014] EWHC 2397 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 171 (Jul)

Colefax v First Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) and another [2014] EWCA Civ 945, [2014] All ER (D) 153 (Jul)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

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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