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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7435

29 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Spencer Keen provides an overview of the most significant provisions of the Equality Act 2010

HBJ Gateley Wareing welcomes Alan Shanks’s return to the UK

Hart Brown has appointed James Lamont as its latest partner.

Mogers Solicitors LLP is extending its business to provide legal services for expat clients.

Wedlake Bell LLP has recruited Edward Craft as partner, applying expertise in both the corporate and low carbon arenas.

The UK Register of Mediators (UKRM) welcomes mediator and chartered arbitrator, Michael Cover

The Indie had a go. Now it is the time of The Guardian. The temptation to knock The Times off its perch as the “must have” newspaper for any self-respecting lawyer is overwhelming.

Three major fault lines exposed in current system

The lord chief justice is to take over leadership of the tribunal’s judiciary.

Leases have moved on. It’s the market that needs to catch up, says Keeley Ellaway

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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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