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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7441

11 November 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Arbitrations offer the parties engaged in a dispute some choice in the selection of arbitrators

Jackson LJ’s proposal that a party should not be able to recover the cost of their After the Event (ATE) insurance premium has generated a lively debate. Like Marmite, either you love it or you hate it

Ian Smith holds on to his sanity...and revisits some old chestnuts

Jonathan Herring on the death knell of marriage

Rehana Azib reports on liability, protection & limitation

John Furber QC revisits authorised guarantee agreements

Ed Mitchell reports on council & court failures to deliver community care

Graham Reid provides a [crash] course in settlement drafting

Paul Hewitt, Paola Fudakowska & Adam Cloherty report on declining capacity, mutual wills & rectification

Siblings’ dispute father’s will: Michael Tringham reports

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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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