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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7400

13 January 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Michael Tringham uncovers a world of revocation, rectification & an opt-out

Cross-border litigation in the EU examined by Philippa Charles & Daniel Hart

Tara Hogg explains how the UK intends to tackle corporate governance failures

Brice Dickson runs through the UK’s top court in 2009

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

Papas Olio JSC v Grains & Fourrages SA and another [2009] EWCA Civ 1401, [2009] All ER (D) 193 (Dec)

Double K Oil & Products 1996 Ltd v Neste Oil OYJ [2009] EWHC 3380 (Comm), [2009] All ER (D) 214 (Dec)

McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd [2009] All ER (D) 233 (Dec)

BSN Diversity League Table boosted by 20% increase on 2009 entries

Individuals can be employed by different employers at the same time, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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