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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

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

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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