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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7460

07 April 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Les Laboratoires Servier and another v Apotex Inc and others [2011] EWHC 730 (Pat), [2011] All ER (D) 318 (Mar)

Football Dataco Ltd and other companies v Sportrader GmbH and another [2011] EWCA Civ 330, [2011] All ER (D) 322 (Mar)

Lawyers have a lot to learn from non legal, savvy professionals, says Allan Carton

Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary, by Roderick Ramage

The Tribunals Service is coping with the demands of an increased workload – despite increased demand

The new Family Procedure Rules 2010 came into force this week (6 April)

Law Society stats show there were 150,128 solicitors on the Roll at the end of last summer

BPP Law School’s Streetlaw Homeless programme carried off the prize for best team of students at this year’s LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards, held last week in the House of Commons.

Adult social care law is a complex and confusing area, and people struggle
to understand their basic legal rights.

Children can wait “well over a year” for the family justice system to determine their future, an independent review panel has found.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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