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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7740

31 March 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

A consideration of Parliamentary intent & a deductive approach could have helped ensure Mrs Owens got her way, says David Burrows

Kim Beatson & Victoria Brown provide an update on leave to remove

BPE Solicitors and another v Hughes-Holland [2017] UKSC 21, [2017] All ER (D) 152 (Mar)

LBI EHF (in winding up) v Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG and another [2017] EWHC 522 (Comm), [2017] All ER (D) 163 (Mar)

Malcolm Dowden & Kizzie Fenner examine the evidential potential of the Internet of Things & the benefits of smart contracts

Geoffrey Bindman QC celebrates Anthony Trollope’s depiction of the legal profession

Is Hotak’s bite now worse than its bark? Sophie Bell & Satvir Sahota examine vulnerability decisions in homeless cases

Epoch Company Ltd v Character Options Ltd [2017] EWHC 556 (IPEC), [2017] All ER (D) 165 (Mar)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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