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Issue: Vol 157, Issue 7257

25 January 2007
IN THIS ISSUE

Dadourian Group International Inc v Simms [2006] EWCA Civ 1745, [2006] All ER (D) 305 (Dec)

Part 36 paradise >>
‘Own initiative’ strike outs >>
Big sch 1 provision claims >>
summary assessment costs >>
Profit on hire charge subrogation >>
Rent unpaid: must landlord mitigate? >>

Simon Young considers how firms can prosper in a changing legal landscape

Geoffrey Bindman’s judicial potential is tested over the
fate of a four-poster bed

In brief

Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No 1, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2006 (SI 2006/3364)

R v Finch [2007] All ER (D) 46 (Jan)

DK (Serbia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2006] EWCA Civ 1747, [2006] All ER (D) 312 (Dec)

Is ‘the Ashley treatment’ legal here?
Barbara Hewson considers the arguments

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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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