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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7671

09 October 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

OpenView Security Solutions Ltd v London Borough of Merton Council [2015] EWHC 2694 (TCC), [2015] All ER (D) 01 (Oct)

R (on the application of SF) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2705 (Admin), [2015] All ER (D) 03 (Oct)

Dunbar Assets plc v Butler [2015] EWHC 2546 (Ch), [2015] All ER (D) 138 (Sep)

Appleton v Gallagher [2015] EWHC 2689 (Fam), [2015] All ER (D) 131 (Sep)

Re NRA and others [2015] EWCOP 59, [2015] All ER (D) 122 (Sep)

R (on the application of Nour) v Secretary of State for Defence [2015] EWHC 2695 (Admin), [2015] All ER (D) 128 (Sep)

Re: B (Child arrangements order re schooling) [2015] EWHC 2735 (Fam), [2015] All ER (D) 02 (Oct)

Dominic Regan conducts a costs poll around the country

Jeffrey T Shapiro examines what support is available to assist litigators to satisfy the increased focus on early settlement & costs control

Consumer law: back to school; assured shortholds: s 21 notice prescribed; £5K for bankruptcy.

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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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