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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

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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