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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

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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