Prominent cybersecurity & privacy partner joins firm
What’s in a name, asks Dominic Regan
Lynn Shellfish Ltd and another v Loose and another [2016] UKSC 14, [2016] All ER (D) 75 (Apr)
What test of damages should apply in a case involving concurrent causes of action, asks Helen Mulcahy
Transocean Drilling UK Ltd v Providence Resources plc (The Arctic III) [2016] EWCA Civ 372, [2016] All ER (D) 68 (Apr)
R (on the application of Gomes) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 373, [2016] All ER (D) 83 (Apr)
Are we moving closer to a social model of disability, asks Charles Pigott
PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 393, [2016] All ER (D) 120 (Apr)
Re C (Children) (Care: Change of forename) [2016] EWCA Civ 374, [2016] All ER (D) 113 (Apr)
Neil Parpworth asks whether there will soon be an end to the “McKenzie Friend”
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Laytons ETL—Maximilian Kraitt
Commercial firm strengthens real estate disputes team with associate hire
Switalskis—three appointments
Firm appoints three directors to board
Browne Jacobson—seven promotions
Six promoted to partner and one to legal director across UK and Ireland offices
From blockbuster judgments to procedural shake-ups, the courts are busy reshaping litigation practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School hails the Court of Appeal's 'exquisite judgment’ in Mazur restoring the role of supervised non-qualified staff, and highlights a ‘mammoth’ damages ruling likened to War and Peace, alongside guidance on medical reporting fees, where a pragmatic 25% uplift was imposed
