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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7715

23 September 2016
IN THIS ISSUE

Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd and another company v European Commission T-460/13, [2016] All ER (D) 52 (Sep)

Peter Breakey heralds a small but welcome extension to the scope of protection for whistleblowers

Ham v Bell and others [2016] EWHC 1791 (Ch), [2016] All ER (D) 222 (Apr)

Seeing off malicious claims; Triumph for QBD Masters; & Court of Appeal: keep out

Re Maud; Maud v Aabar Block S.a.r.l and another [2016] EWHC 2175 (Ch), [2016] All ER (D) 51 (Sep)

Elizabeth Slattery & Jo Broadbent discuss potential models for UK employment law post-Brexit

A and another v C and another [2016] EWFC 42, [2016] All ER (D) 186 (Jul)

 

Paola Fudakowska & Henrietta Mason analyse solicitors’ duties in estate matters

Dominik Opalinski considers the impact of Brexit on the charity sector

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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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