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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7354

29 January 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Laroche v Spirit of Adventure (UK) Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 12, [2009] All ER (D) 137 (Jan)

Maher and another v Groupama Grand Est, [2009] EWHC 38 (QB), [2009] All ER (D) 183 (Jan)

Jonathan Cohen reports on chinks in the armour of the arbitration award

Amanda Wadey outlines the main changes to the CPR coming into force on 6 April 2009.

This update is provided by Current Awareness and News

Regulation

Jones v Environcom Ltd [2009] EWHC 16 (Comm), [2009] All ER (D) 115 (Jan)

News in brief

Part two: Andrew Burns unravels the strands of the asbestos “trigger” trial

Part 1: Mediation or expert determination? Emma Sadler considers the alternatives to litigation

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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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