Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7421

Robert Musgrove will become new chief executive of the Qatar Civil and Commercial Court, Tribunal, and Mediation Centre

The City Law School has announced a new partnership agreement with the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF)

Trowers & Hamlins has made two local government appointments.

Lord Chancellor, Kenneth Clarke QC, and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, have appointed Lady Justice Hallett DBE to be chairman of the Judicial Studies Board.

While defamation law could be simplified and made more accessible for both claimants and defendants, I am suspicious why, as an area of law that gave rise to only 219 cases in the High Court last year, it has been subjected to quite so many reviews and amendments over the last two years.

The use of force by a state against foreign shipping on the high seas was traditionally seen as an act of war. The UN Charter prohibits the threat or use of force for any reason, other than UN mandated operations, self-defence, and forcible humanitarian action.

Chris Bryden & Michael Salter explain why equal pay remains an unattained goal

David Burrows breaks a self-imposed ordinance

Keith Patten outlines the difficulties associated with the “but for” test

Andrew Lugger warns property practitioners against an over reliance on indemnity insurance