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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

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
In NLJ this week, Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre marks Pro Bono Week by urging lawyers to recognise the emotional toll of pro bono work
Can a lease legally last only days—or even hours? Professor Mark Pawlowski of the University of Greenwich explores the question in this week's NLJ
RFC Seraing v FIFA, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) reaffirmed that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may be reviewed by EU courts on public-policy grounds, is under examination in this week's NLJ by Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law, Zurich
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