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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7633

05 December 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Human rights have been a popular talking point in recent times, says Roger Smith

Reasonable adjustments could play a diminishing role in capability dismissal claims, says Charles Pigott

The Supreme Court has provided important guidance on the illegality defence, as Jack Harris reports

Nicholas Dobson reports on a Supreme Court ruling on terminating a joint tenancy

Can you make time of the essence if a contract is silent on the point, asks John Sharples

R (on the application of Barclay and another) v Secretary of State for Justice and others (Attorney General of Jersey and the States of Guernsey intervening) [2014] UKSC 54, [2014] All ER (D) 258 (Oct)

McDonald (deceased) v National Grid Electricity Transmission plc [2014] UKSC 53, [2014] All ER (D) 257 (Oct)

Scott v Southern Pacific Mortgages Ltd [2014] UKSC 52, [2014] All ER (D) 251 (Oct)

Re X and others (Deprivation of Liberty) (Number 2) [2014] EWCOP 37, [2014] All ER (D) 224 (Oct)

Sugar Hut Group and others v A J Insurance [2014] EWHC 3352 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 233 (Oct)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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