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Issue: Vol 168, Issue 7789

20 April 2018
IN THIS ISSUE

In their third update on trial technology Michael Fletcher & Helen Pugh discuss the drivers for change

Caroline Bielanska provides a case study demonstrating how lasting powers of attorney apply where an elderly relative loses capacity

Geoffrey Bindman searches for a legal justification for the recent attack by the US, Britain & France on Syria

George Hepburne Scott considers how changes to the judiciary in Poland could affect Britain’s post-Brexit extradition relationship with the EU

Uncertainty remains regarding the impact of Brexit on London’s legal community, as Julian Acratopulo explains

Private prosecutions are taking off as a useful way to protect your brand & products, as Matt Bosworth explains

Patrick Wheeler & Mette Marie Sutton explain how increased data subject access rights could wreak havoc

Ian Smith celebrates an anniversary & is proof that quality never goes out of fashion

Cumulative effect of insurer’s tactic could run to many millions of pounds

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

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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