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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7685

05 February 2016
IN THIS ISSUE

R (on the application of C) v Secretary of State for Justice [2016] UKSC 2, [2016] All ER (D) 206 (Jan)

Counted4 Community Interest Company v Sunderland City Council [2015] EWHC 3898 (TCC), [2016] All ER (D) 198 (Jan)

Camilla Fusco provides guidance for putting in place successful contact arrangements

Stephen Byrne outlines a blow to formulism

Various Claimants v McAlpine and others [2016] EWHC 45 (QB), [2016] All ER (D) 163 (Jan)

R (on the application of McKenzie) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2016] EWHC 102 (Admin), [2016] All ER (D) 203 (Jan)

DPAs: who would want one—and what are the alternatives, asks Jonathan Pickworth

Ben Fielding examines the implications of the end of Safe Harbor

PJV v Assistant Director Adult Social Care Newcastle City Council and another [2015] EWCOP 87, [2016] All ER (D) 87 (Jan)

Sentencing of very large organisations: Emma Davies & Rosie Nelson report

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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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