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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7624

02 October 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Publicly funded family mediations have fallen despite the introduction of compulsory Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs).

Khawar Qureshi QC provides an overview of recent key arbitration decisions

The potentially seismic Coventry v Lawrence costs challenge has been re-listed in the Supreme Court for 9-11 February next year.

Bar Placement Week, which aims to boost social mobility within the profession, scooped a prize at the Halsbury Legal Awards last week.

Applications have opened for CILEx Fellows wishing to gain practice rights in immigration and litigation.

The common law could be developed to remind bloggers and internet users that they have responsibilities as well as rights, Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, has said

New powers for employment tribunals to order employers to carry out equal pay audits are now in force.

Recent case law suggests motor insurers could raise premiums despite new measures announced by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a solicitor has warned.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

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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