Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7418

ZN (Afghanistan) (FC) and others v Entry Clearance Officer (Karachi) and one other action [2010] UKSC 21, [2010] All ER (D) 88 (May)

Larkfield Ltd v Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office v May and others [2010] EWCA Civ 521, [2010] All ER (D) 86 (May)

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage

Eversheds has appointed Steven Geerlings and Paul-Michael Rebus to the firms’ city banking and finance arm.

Coventry University’s Centre for the International Business of Sport is to launch a new post-graduate certificate in Sports Law.

Receiving the usual crop of invitations from barristers’ chambers to join them in celebrating the appointment of new Queen’s Counsel prompted me to wonder how this strange relic of class privilege has survived and what has really changed since the 1950s.

The country had a crash course on constitutional constraints as Nick Clegg and David Cameron crafted their deal after the election.

Two newcomers have been voted on to APIL’s executive committee. Jane Horton, a partner at Irwin Mitchell and Gordon Dalyell, a partner at Digby Brown, won places following the association’s annual ballot.

Trowers & Hamlins has been voted “Legal Firm of the Year” in this year’s FDs’ Excellence Award in association with the ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales).

Joe Reevy provides ten tips for long-term survival