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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7390

20 October 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Duncan and another v Secretary of State for Defence, [2009] EWCA Civ 1043, [2009] All ER (D) 121 (Oct)

Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (HY) Ltd v Shepherd Construction Ltd, [2009] EWHC 2218 (TCC), [2009] All ER (D) 125 (Oct)

The third edition of this book provides a comprehensive, coherent account of the background, content and application of human rights in the UK. It addresses every section of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) and the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Convention), and its First Protocol.

Anyone interested in the future of legal services or in the management of a law firm should grab a copy of Lord Hunt’s Review of the Regulation of Legal Services.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published its policy on dealing with UK companies suspected of having committed offences involving overseas corruption.

Ian Smith celebrates the highs & lows of recent tribunal decisions

Richard Scorer examines a hidden epidemic suffered by British soldiers

Toby Atkinson explores the rights & remedies available to cohabitants on relationship breakdown

Joseph Ollech recounts some recent developments in the world of virtual assignments & alienation clauses

Robert Latham reports on disclosure, cross-examination & equality

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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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