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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7637

23 January 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

The family law profession faced judicial castigation in a recent case, as Laura Mortimer explains

Is there a claim for the vehicle’s diminution; if so, with what limits? Stewart Fairhurst reports

Can an equitable interest in a house take priority over a legal charge? Nicholas Asprey reports

Regulated unregulated credit, cross-border harassment & CPR latest

Re Estate of Jimmy Savile; National Westminster Bank plc v Lucas and others [2014] EWCA Civ 1632, [2014] All ER (D) 190 (Dec)

Public Joint Stock Company Vseukrainskyi Aktsionernyi Bank v Maksimov and others [2014] EWHC 4370 (Comm), [2014] All ER (D) 218 (Dec)

Miraszewski and others v District Court In Torun, Poland and another [2014] EWHC 4261 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 208 (Dec)

R (Natural England) v Day [2014] EWCA Crim 2683, [2014] All ER (D) 192 (Dec)

R (on the application of Idira) v Secretary of State for Home Department [2014] EWHC 4299 (Admin), [2014] All ER (D) 241 (Dec)

R (on the application of Delezuch) v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary; R (on the application of Duggan) v Association of Chief Police Officers [2014] EWCA Civ 1635, [2014] All ER (D) 234 (Dec)

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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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