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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7434

23 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Sacker & Partners LLP has announced the launch of its governance team, created to promote best practice in the area of scheme governance.

HBJ Gateley Wareing has appointed a new business development and marketing director, Neil Armstrong.

Ledingham Chalmers Aberdeen based lawyers have taken part in WildHearts in Action’s annual “WolfTrek” fundraising walk, raising over £4,500.

Abney Garsden McDonald, has been nominated as a finalist in the 2010 British Computer Society (BSC) UK IT Industry Awards.

Joe Bryant counts the cost of improved legal regulation

The LSC has narrowed the options for access to justice. Linda Lee explains why the profession must fight back

Cyril Adjei examines the complexities of hypothetical comparators

Richard Scorer asks who cares best? Home or hospice?

Malcolm Dowden & Simon Ewing discuss issues affecting the coalition government’s energy objectives

John Benstead explains why industry needs to be armed & ready for the Bribery Act

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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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