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Issue: Vol 166, Issue 7709

29 July 2016
IN THIS ISSUE

Monster Energy Company v European Union Intellectual Property Office T-567/15, [2016] All ER (D) 68 (Jul)

Versloot Dredging BV and another v HDI Gerline Industrie Versicherung AG and others [2016] UKSC 45, [2016] All ER (D) 92 (Jul)

Juffali v Juffali [2016] EWHC 1684 (Fam), [2016] All ER (D) 86 (Jul)

Robert Spicer & Polly Lord issue a riposte to the legal industry’s current rush to IT

Southern Gas Networks plc v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2016] EWHC 1669 (TCC), [2016] All ER (D) 87 (Jul)

Willers v Joyce and another (in substitution for and in their capacity as executors of Albert Gubay (Deceased)) (No 1) [2016] UKSC 43, [2016] All ER (D) 97 (Jul)

R (on the application of FR (Albania) and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWCA Civ 605, [2016] All ER (D) 101 (Jul)

Is the doctrine of precedent the “unwavering” foundation of common law ask Stuart Pickford & Vivien Yip

James Goudkamp & Donal Nolan study contributory negligence in practice

LSLA president: lawyers must act to avoid potential damage

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

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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