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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7465

12 May 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Finers Stephens Innocent LLP has hired three new partners. Rachael Spalton, Adam Walford and Simon Malkiel joined the firm on 1 May.

Part 2: Jon Robins continues his predictions on how deregulation will affect the legal services market

Could time be up for the Taplin test, asks Mark Benney

Will a Victorian statute prevent local councils selling off our museums & libraries to make ends meet? Paul Letman investigates

Christopher Stirling reports on setting aside dispositions to third parties in matrimonial proceedings

Boris Cetnik & Malcolm Keen reflect on the ramifications of Baker v Quantum

Andy Creer & John de Waal consider the effect of the decision in Murphy v Wyatt

Feed-in tariffs: thinking big, or redefining small, asks Malcolm Dowden

Mensch und Natur AG v Freistaat Bayern C-327/09, [2011] All ER (D) 23 (May)

Barr and others v Biffa Waste Services Ltd [2011] EWHC 1003 (TCC), [2011] All ER (D) 25 (May)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

London labour and employment team announces partner hire

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

NEWS
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has not done enough to protect the future sustainability of the legal aid market, MPs have warned
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After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
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