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Issue: Vol 172, Issue 7967

18 February 2022
IN THIS ISSUE
NLJ aims to help you achieve the best possible match through our Jobs & Careers hub. As well as recruitment ads, it offers business-critical information and advice through a range of articles
Faras Baloch charts the potential role of artificial intelligence in disclosure & privilege review in criminal cases
Alastair Gillespie examines whether cricketer Azeem Rafiq could bring a claim for vicarious liability
Environmental, social & governance: Clare Hughes‑Williams & Sarah Crowther on why law firms should keep all three top of the agenda if they want to keep the lights on in the long term
Corporate landlords give thanks; Don’t forget the pension; Domestic abuse: definition extension; Financial remedies: HURRY!
Black Swan flies & The Siskina lists: Brian Lacy reports on a key decision on freestanding freezing injunctions
Nicholas Dobson reflects on lessons learnt from the Harry Miller case & discusses the perception-based recording of non-crime hate incidents
Mark Pawlowski looks at some unusual English cases in equity & trust law
The racist abuse meted out to talented cricketer Azeem Rafiq hit the headlines this year, and his evidence to a parliamentary committee portrayed ‘a sport in which a culture of humiliation, intimidation and racism, generally passed off by its proponents and practitioners as workplace banter, had been endemic for so many years that it ran through establishments such as Yorkshire County Cricket Club (Yorkshire) like the writing on a stick of Blackpool rock’, as Alastair Gillespie, partner at Horwich Farrelly, writes in this week’s NLJ
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

FOIL—Bridget Tatham

Forum of Insurance Lawyers elects president for 2026

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Gibson Dunn—Robbie Sinclair

Partner joinslabour and employment practice in London

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Muckle LLP—Ella Johnson

Real estate dispute resolution team welcomes newly qualified solicitor

NEWS
Solicitors are installing panic buttons and thumb print scanners due to ‘systemic and rising’ intimidation including death and arson threats from clients
Ministers’ decision to scrap plans for their Labour manifesto pledge of day one protection from unfair dismissal was entirely predictable, employment lawyers have said
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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