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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7737

10 March 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

Wodzicki v Wodzicki [2017] EWCA Civ 95 [2017] All ER (D) 22 (Mar)

Khawar Qureshi QC reviews the headline-catching public international law cases before the English Courts in 2016

Ahmed v United Kingdom (App No 59727/13) [2017] All ER (D) 16 (Mar)

P R Hardman & Partners v Greenwood and another [2017] EWCA Civ 52, [2017] EWCA Civ 52

Re Burnden Group Ltd; Fielding and another v Hunt (acting as Liquidator of the Burnden Group Ltd) [2017] EWHC 406 (Ch), [2017] All ER (D) 29 (Mar)

Latest CPR update: the rest; no more meetings; & don’t discount a withdrawal.

Webster (a child and protected party, by his mother and Litigation Friend, Butler) v Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 62, [2017] All ER (D) 189 (Feb)

IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, [2017] UKSC 16, [2017] All ER (D) 09 (Mar)

Geoffrey Bindman urges caution in the march towards online dominance in the law

The Possession Online Claims system is in urgent need of a digital makeover, as Tracy Bird explains

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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