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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7433

16 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Akzo Nobel ruling weakens in-house professional privilege

Beachcroft has appointed Mark Sutton to its specialist and international risks group and associate Louise Watson-Jones to its commercial health team.

Finders were the official sponsors of the 2010 Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) annual awards which took place at the Law Society in London on 9 September.

Richard Beavan is the latest acquisition at Boodle Hatfield, bringing experience in public company takeovers, private company acquisitions and disposals.

Steven Friel joins Brown Rudnick’s London office from Davies Arnold Cooper as a partner in the litigation department.

Isabel Burón and Pablo Guillén have been promoted to partner at Davies Arnold Cooper LLP. Isabel and Pablo are both based in DAC’s Madrid office.

Baroness Butler-Sloss has received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Wolverhampton.

If we are both a nation of animal lovers and a nation of serial litigators, what does it say about our attitude towards risk that we’re happy to fork out £12 a month on an insurance policy to cover our cat’s vet fees but not willing to pay to cover the risk of being sued?

Azmina Gulamhusein examines employers’ attitudes to mental illness

Siobhan Jones explores the effects of unfair prejudice & “guarantee stripping” in company voluntary arrangements

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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