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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7431

02 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

All practitioners—claimant and defendant—should appreciate the new professional negligence trap set by Gibbon...

Jack Straw took the opportunity of his retirement from Labour’s front bench to publicise his forthcoming memoirs...

Sarah Johnson analyses employees gagging for a pay discussion

Why pensions merit attention throughout a divorce, explains Caroline Wright

Oil extraction & the Pointe Gourde principle: Mark Sefton & Oliver Radley-Gardner report

Kenneth Warner highlights the courts’ reluctance to invoke a duty of care for unconventional forms of damage

Julian Miller & Tom Pangbourne assess the dangers of tax avoidance schemes

Re D (statutory will) [2010] EWHC 2159 (Ch), [2010] All ER (D) 102 (Aug)

R (on the application of B) v Islington London Borough Council [2010] All ER (D) 97 (Aug)

R (on the application of B) v Islington London Borough Council [2010] All ER (D) 97 (Aug)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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