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Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7634

12 December 2014
IN THIS ISSUE

Restrictive covenants & freehold land: is now the time to wake up to the challenges to validity, asks Andrew Francis

Is the EU-Canada free trade agreement setting a new standard in investor-state arbitration or eroding investor rights, asks Devika Khanna

Jalal Bezee Mejel Al-Gaood & Partner and another company v Innospec Ltd and others [2014] EWHC 3147 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 230 (Oct)

R (on the application of Cotton and others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2014] EWHC 3437 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 249 (Oct)

Kelly v Ministry of Justice [2014] EWHC 3440 (QB), [2014] All ER (D) 253 (Oct)

Re Parkwell Investments Ltd [2014] EWHC 3381 (Ch), [2014] All ER (D) 214 (Oct)

Assuranceforeningen Gard Gjensidig v The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund [2014] EWHC 3369 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 225 (Oct)

Re SE (A Child) [2014] EWHC 3182 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 229 (Oct)

Novartis AG v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-444/12, [2014] All ER (D) 196 (Oct)

Boylin v Christie NHS Foundation [2014] EWHC 3363 (QB), [2014] All ER (D) 228 (Oct)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires

Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Ellisons—Sarah Osborne

Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team

DWF—Chris Air

DWF—Chris Air

Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment

NEWS
The government will aim to pass legislation banning leasehold for new flats and capping ground rent, introducing non-compulsory digital ID and creating a ‘duty of candour’ for public servants (also known as the Hillsborough law) in the next Parliament

An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice

Reforms to the disclosure regime in the business and property courts have not achieved their objectives, lawyers have warned
The Law Society has urged ministers to hold a public consultation on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the justice system as a whole
Ministers have proposed bringing inquest work under a single fee scheme for legal help and advocacy legal aid work
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