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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7369

14 April 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Lawyers hopeful government will be forced to change proposals after consultation

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

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

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

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

Profession

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

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

Helen Wolstenholme reports on genuine accidents & deliberate contempt

Peter Vaines reports on life, tax & quantitative pleasing

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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