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Issue: Vol 168, Issue 7814

26 October 2018
IN THIS ISSUE

Following the latest case with cake at the core, Athelstane Aamodt takes a culinary journey through a few more legal pickles

​A changing role in changing times? Sophie Gould reports on how in-house lawyers are adopting & adapting advances in legal technology

Question marks over lingua franca status of English law post-Brexit

Not all beneficiaries or trustee decisions are equal, as William Moffett reports

    In his second article on the challenges of amending a defendant’s name, Victor Smith considers the distinction between entities that are truly different & the same defendant merely misnamed

    John McMullen discusses the variation of employment contracts after TUPE transfers

    Legal challenges to solicitors’ bills seem set to increase, says Richard Langley

    Supermarket vicariously liable for employee breach

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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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