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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7428

29 July 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Steven O’Sullivan advocates the policy of notification, notification, notification

Daniel Greenberg laments the introduction of nonsense legislation

John Kyriacou has been appointed partner in Penningtons’ London office, joining its clinical negligence team.

Commercial litigation specialist Richard Slaven is to join Pinsent Masons as a partner along with Mike Edge, who joins the firm as head of the property team.

Malcolm Davis-White QC of 4 Stone Buildings was elected as the new chairman of the Chancery Bar Association at the Association’s AGM earlier this month.

Matt Hutchings has joined 2-3 Gray’s Inn Square as a member of its civil litigation, property, housing, local government and public law groups.

Derek Walsh has joined global insurer RSA as its new general counsel.

A Dutch court has found multinational, Trafigura, guilty of delivering hazardous waste to Amsterdam while concealing the true nature of the load

Ministry announcement expected in the Autumn

Reform of tribunal system high on agenda as claims soar

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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