THIS ISSUE
Gill O’Connor reports on the impact of the restriction of single joint expert reports in the family courts
Nicholas Dobson examines the Supreme Court’s approach to the police stop and search power in s 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Chris Deacon & Dr Linda Monaci provide a legal & medico-legal perspective of expert evidence in foreign applicable law cases
Brown and another, the joint administrators of Loanwell Ltd v Stonegale Ltd [2016] UKSC 30, [2016] All ER (D) 133 (Jun)
Heythrop Zoological Gardens Ltd and another v Captive Animals Protection Society [2016] EWHC 1370 (Ch), [2016] All ER (D) 126 (Jun)
Nissan Jidosha KK v European Union Intellectual Property Office C-207/15 P, [2016] All ER (D) 130 (Jun)
BNY Mellon Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v LBG Capital No 1 Plc and another [2016] UKSC 29, [2016] All ER (D) 89 (Jun)
Harb v Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz [2016] EWCA Civ 556, [2016] All ER (D) 102 (Jun)
Should expert witnesses always be named, asks Chris Pamplin
"Enforcement of Consumer Rights and Protections is an extraordinary achievement"
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu
Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department
Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus
Firm announces appointment of next chair
Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker
Director joins corporate team from the US
NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection?
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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