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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7640

13 February 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

Mosley v Google Inc and another [2015] EWHC 59 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 06 (Feb)

Impact Funding Solutions Ltd v Barrington Support Services Limited (Formerly Lawyers at Work Ltd) and another [2015] EWCA Civ 31, [2015] All ER (D) 31 (Feb)

Barking and Dagenham London Borough v SS [2014] EWHC 4436 (Fam), [2015] All ER (D) 07 (Feb)

MASM v MMAM and others [2015] EWCOP 3, [2015] All ER (D) 238 (Jan)

Re M (Children) (Republic of Ireland) (Child’s Objections) (Joinder of Children as parties to appeal) [2015] EWCA Civ 26, [2015] All ER (D) 03 (Feb)

Hutchinson v United Kingdom (App No 57592/08), [2015] All ER (D) 17 (Feb)

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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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