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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

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

NEWS
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 
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
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
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’
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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