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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7646

27 March 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

Embassies’ employment immunities are in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, as Charles Pigott reports

Spousal maintenance in a time of change outlined by Hazel Wright

Henrietta Mason & Paola Fudakowska provide a wills & probate update

Edward Rowntree explains why deathbed gifts are under the Appeal Court spotlight

James Ward takes issue with the chancellor’s unjustified attack on deeds of variation

Peter Vaines …& George Osborne get serious about tax evasion

Ecovision Systems Ltd v Vinci Construction UK Ltd [2015] EWHC 587 (TCC), [2015] All ER (D) 160 (Mar)

Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd and another [2015] UKSC 17, [2015] All ER (D) 185 (Mar)

Intermark Srl v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Design) T-384/13, [2015] All ER (D) 192 (Mar)

Naazneen Investments Ltd v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-250/13, [2015] All ER (D) 191 (Mar)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

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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