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
MOVERS & SHAKERS
NLJ Career Profile: Nikki Bowker, Devonshires
Nikki Bowker, head of dispute resolution at Devonshires, on career resilience, diversity in law and channelling Elle Woods when the pressure is on
Ellisons—Sarah Osborne
Leasehold enfranchisement specialist joins residential property team
DWF—Chris Air
Firm strengthens commercial team in Manchester with partner appointment
An engagement ring may symbolise romance, but the courts remain decidedly practical about who keeps it after a split, writes Mark Pawlowski, barrister and professor emeritus of property law at the University of Greenwich, in this week's NLJ
An Italian financier has lost his bid to block his Australian wife from filing divorce papers in England on the basis it was no longer her domicile of choice
