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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7449

20 January 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Janet Dalton’s recent promotion to director has boosted DWF’s finance and restructuring team.

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has hired Stephen Smith from Mayer Brown as a partner in its competition practice.

Ledingham Chalmers has promoted Rod Hutchison to partner, recognising his specialist capabilities in corporate law.

Bath-based Mogers Solicitors has announced five new appointments.

Chris Bryden & Michael Salter start 2011 by batting off derogatory claims

Steve Tombs & David Whyte highlight the dangers of reducing corporate prosecutions

Charles Pigott reports on why the Woodcock appeal failed to fly

Justin Bates provides some good news for landlords

Has the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union taken the UK into new legal territory ask Charles Brasted & Cordelia Rayner

Scullion provides some lessons in law & life for the buy-to-let market, says Alison Padfield

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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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