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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7387

01 October 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Compromise agreements can sometimes go too far,
says Nicholas Dobson

Frances Ratcliffe counts up executors’ costs after Raymond Saul v Holden

Part 2: Peter J Tyldesley considers the proposals & prospects for consumer insurance law reform

Veronica Bailey asks whether ISPs & search engines are liable for defamation on the internet

Procedure & principle count in e-disclosure. Martin Bonney explains why

Geoffrey Bindman warns against underestimating the power of the ballot box

Sea Srl v Comune di Ponte Nossa C-573/07

Trustee in Bankruptcy of Louise St John Poulton v Ministry of Justice [2009] EWHC 2123 (Ch)

Three-tier streamlined process to apply from April 2010

Bristows has recruited Toby Crick to become a partner in its IT & outsourcing practice.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

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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