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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7672

16 October 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

Whiston Bristow & Giles Hutt review the Shorter & Flexible Trials Pilot Schemes currently running in the High Court

Worthing and another v Lloyds Bank plc [2015] EWHC 2836 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 84 (Oct)

O’Brien v Ministry of Justice; Walker v Innospec and others [2015] EWCA Civ 1000, [2015] All ER (D) 46 (Oct)

Re B (a child) (child arrangements order: prematurity of judge’s decision) [2015] EWCA Civ 974, [2015] All ER (D) 381 (Jul)

Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner C-362/14, [2015] All ER (D) 34 (Oct)

MR H TV Ltd (formerly known as CAN Associates TV Ltd) v ITV2 Ltd [2015] EWHC 2840 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 85 (Oct)

Alec Samuels examines the ins & outs of hot-tubbing

FAS v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another [2015] EWCA Civ 951, [2015] All ER (D) 42 (Oct)

Winston Jacob discusses solicitors’ agents, rights of audience & the chambers’ advocate

Mohidin and another v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis and others [2015] EWHC 2740 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 27 (Oct)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Jean-François Le Gal

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Jean-François Le Gal

Penningtons Manches Cooper strengthens international disputes team with appointment of leading arbitration partner

Shakespeare Martineau—Aaron Sanders & Kate Saunders

Shakespeare Martineau—Aaron Sanders & Kate Saunders

Shakespeare Martineau strengthens trust and estates disputes team with new appointments

Bellevue Law—Shannon Moore

Bellevue Law—Shannon Moore

Bellevue Law strengthens employment disputes and international advisory capability with senior associate appointment

NEWS
A divorced woman has secured funding to participate in her former husband’s inquest after the Legal Aid Agency reconsidered repeated refusals
More than 500 former rugby players can pursue brain injury claims despite serious failures to disclose documents ordered by the High Court
Developers in areas with poorly performing councils can apply directly to the Planning Inspectorate for permission under section 62A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
When does a solicitor’s retainer become a contentious business agreement? The Court of Appeal’s decision in Broadfield Law UK LLP v Barnes shows that listing hourly rates alone will not do, leaving firms and clients uncertain about their rights over bills
MPs cannot simply resign their Commons seats. Instead, they take a nominal Crown office, usually the Chiltern Hundreds or Manor of Northstead, which disqualifies them from sitting
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