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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7392

05 November 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Part two: agreements to negotiate, are they enforceable? ask Antonio Bueno QC & Deborah Tompkinson

Councils into forced marriages; unfair shock; and credit reference peril

Timothy Dutton QC considers the impact of the Legal Services Act on the independent Bar

What options do you have when your opponent fabricates evidence? Stuart Paterson & Gareth Keillor

Re Sigma Finance Corporation [2009] UKSC 2

Authors: Spencer Keen & Richard Oulton

R (on the application of L) v Metropolitan Police Commissioner (secretary of state for the Home Department and another intervening) [2009] UKSC 3

Potential for up to two years in prison if government plans receive go ahead

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

HFW—Simon Petch

HFW—Simon Petch

Global shipping practice expands with experienced ship finance partner hire

Freeths—Richard Lockhart

Freeths—Richard Lockhart

Infrastructure specialist joins as partner in Glasgow office

NLJ Career Profile: Mark Hastings, Quillon Law

NLJ Career Profile: Mark Hastings, Quillon Law

Mark Hastings, founding partner of Quillon Law, on turning dreams into reality and pushing back on preconceptions about partnership

NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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