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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

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Gary Walsh

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Gary Walsh

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Anthony Collins—20 promotions

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Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley adds competition litigator Elaine Whiteford in London

NEWS
The cross-party Justice Select Committee has warned legal aid is now a ‘service in managed decline’ due to ministers’ ‘inadequate’ and ‘disappointing’ response to its concerns
It would not be in the public interest to bring contempt proceedings against MI5 for providing unreliable evidence about its policy of ‘neither confirming nor denying’ someone worked for the intelligence services, the High Court has held
The Civil Justice Council has recommended a practice direction (PD) be drawn up to advise lawyers on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in court documents
Courts modernisation champion and technology enthusiast Sir Geoffrey Vos has retired after an extraordinary career
Practitioners have welcomed two autumn budget reforms relating to inheritance tax on pensions
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