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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7732

03 February 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

Egeneonu v Egeneonu [2017] EWHC 43 (Fam), [2017] All ER (D) 69 (Jan)

Nicholas Griffin QC considers the CJEU Watson decision on UK surveillance law

 

Michael Zander QC picks out crucial passages from the Supreme Court judgment on the triggering of Art 50

Henry Hood discusses further developments in the interaction between bankruptcy & divorce cases

Petrosaudi Oil Services (Venezuela) Ltd v Novo Banco S.A. and others [2017] EWCA Civ 9, [2017] All ER (D) 92 (Jan)

Brexit & other horizon scanning, by Enid Rowlands

Wood and another v TUI Travel plc (trading as First Choice) [2017] EWCA Civ 11, [2017] All ER (D) 53 (Jan)

Is the sharing of overseas pensions now at an end, asks Kerry Fretwell

Steve Foster examines press intrusion into celebrity privacy & the decision in Kaye v Robertson

Why has it taken so long for football sex abuse scandal to be uncovered, asks Richard Scorer

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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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