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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7369

14 April 2009
IN THIS ISSUE
Government to retain innocent DNA

Lawyers hopeful government will be forced to change proposals after consultation

15 May 2009
Law in 101 words

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

14 May 2009 / Roderick Ramage
Religion—Human rights—Open air funerals

Ghai v Newcastle City Council (Ramgharia Gurdwara, Hitchin and another intervening) [2009] EWHC 978 (Admin), [2009] All ER (D) 68 (May)

14 May 2009
Adverse possession—River bed—Acquisition of title by squatter

Port of London Authority v Ashmore [2009] EWHC 954 (Ch), [2009] All ER (D) 74 (May), Chancery Division

14 May 2009
Jackson report counts the cost

Access to justice and fairness core to ambitious review of civil litigation costs

14 May 2009
QC selection working

Profession

14 May 2009
Between a rock & a hard place Premium Content

Are Northern Rock shares not worth a truffle? ask Paul Dacam & Harriet Dedman

14 May 2009 / Harriet Dedman / Paul Dacam
Lessons in without prejudice Premium Content

Peter Crampin QC & Simon Williams discuss the outcome & effect of Ofulue v Bossert

14 May 2009 / Simon Williams / Peter Crampin
Accidental malice Premium Content

Helen Wolstenholme reports on genuine accidents & deliberate contempt

14 May 2009 / Helen Wolstenholme
Taxing matters Premium Content

Peter Vaines reports on life, tax & quantitative pleasing

14 May 2009 / Peter Vaines
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NEWS
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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders
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 
NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
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
Your magistrates’ court needs you!
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed
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’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
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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