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Issue: Vol 167, Issue 7745

12 May 2017
IN THIS ISSUE

Roger Smith reports on the ABA Techshow

Davis (As trustee in bankruptcy of Jackson) v Jackson and another [2017] EWHC 698 (Ch), [2017] All ER (D) 119 (Apr)

Dawson-Damer and others v Taylor Wessing LLP (Information Commissioner intervening) [2017] EWCA Civ 74, [2017] All ER (D) 208 (Feb)

The High Court has rejected a novel use of POCA 2002’s cash seizure powers, report Jasvinder Nakhwal & Nicholas Querée

Lidl Ltd v Central Arbitration Committee [2017] EWCA Civ 328, [2017] All ER (D) 31 (May)

Chodorek v District Court of Kielce, Poland [2017] EWHC 995 (Admin), [2017] All ER (D) 29 (May)

Reasonable losers; invites to OS; statutorily demanding; actuaries on a high.

“Those who own legal practices would do well to read the book and then have a long look at where they are going”

Litigation finance is going from strength to strength in the UK & globally, says Neil Purslow

Re Blavo; Blavo v Law Society (acting through the Solicitors Regulation Authority) [2017] EWHC 561 (Ch), [2017] All ER (D) 03 (May)

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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
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
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
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper 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
Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Rylatt and Robyn Laye of Anthony Gold Solicitors examine recent international relocation cases where allegations of domestic abuse shaped outcomes
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