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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7463

28 April 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

How useful will the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme be to lawyers? Angela Dass reports

The court’s decision in Noble v Owens illustrates why judgments are and should be final, says Lisa Sullivan

IBB Solicitors has announced a number of promotions with the appointment of two new equity partners and two new fixed share partners.

RBS has appointed Mike Littlewood as head of its professional services team within the bank’s corporate and institutional banking division

An expert in industrial disease claims has been appointed vice-president of the not-for-profit Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

RPC has appointed Nicholas Wilcox as a senior associate in the broadcast media team.

Olswang has recruited Campbell Forsyth who joins the firm as partner in the IP group.

Pinsent Masons has hired Andrew Masraf to head the firm’s corporate & tax group.

Roger Smith reflects on detainees, masterly performances & Daily Mail fulmination

There is a fine line between protection & unfairness in sex discrimination cases, says Peter Breakey

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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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