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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7361

19 March 2009
IN THIS ISSUE
Professional services report

News in brief

19 March 2009
A quick fix or a long battle? Premium Content

Part 2: Early neutral evaluation or arbitration? Emma Sadler considers the alternatives to litigation

19 March 2009 / Emma Sadler
Civil litigation

Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2009] EWCA Civ 171, [2009]

19 March 2009
ECJ passes the buck Premium Content

Will the government blow the whistle on forced retirement? Charles Pigott reports

19 March 2009 / Charles Pigott
The knowledge question Premium Content

Will employers pay the price for passive smoking in the workplace? Andrew Buchan reports

19 March 2009 / Andrew Buchan
Fighting for liberty Premium Content

Roger Smith salutes two judicial superstars with impeccable human rights credentials

19 March 2009 / Roger Smith
Corrections

News in brief

19 March 2009
Foreign intervention Premium Content

Geoffrey Bindman recalls a disturbing encounter with German criminal justice

19 March 2009 / Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC
A fair deal? Premium Content

Mark Parkhouse & Kerry Scott on the criticism of pre-package administrations

19 March 2009 / Mark Parkhouse / Kerry Scott
Family justice inquiry

Family

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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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
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NLJ this week: Motor finance faces £11bn reckoning
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
NLJ this week: Gold on Awaab’s Law & digital divorce
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
NLJ this week: AI in the dock—courts need literacy, not fear
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
NLJ this week: Landlords lose their upward climb
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
NLJ this week: Privy Council undresses the ‘shareholder rule’
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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