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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7457

17 March 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

SNG has appointed property law expert Germaine Peters to its expanding team

The Institute of Legal Executives recently celebrated reaching the landmark of the appointment of the first 100 legal executive partners and the first legal executive judge.

Sacker & Partners has promoted Claire van Rees to associate.

Solicitor and business woman Joy Van-Cooten has been appointed as the new chair of the association of women solicitors (AWS) at its annual general meeting.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg’s speech, ‘Restoring Civil Liberties’, delivered before an audience of libel reform hopefuls in January...

The last few years have seen significant changes to the legal market. Increased competition from high street names such as the Co-operative and Halifax...

How flexible are you, asks Sarah Johnson

Barbara Hewson discusses the Court of Appeal’s latest ruling on deprivation of liberty

Are mesothelioma claims a lost cause for defendants? Jonathan de Rohan reports

Nicholas Dobson tackles Teckal

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

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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