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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7469

08 June 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Drew Macaulay offers some top tips on unblocking jurisdictional log jams

Jennifer James grapples with a transatlantic tweeting sensation, Mr Monkey & the Fourth Estate

Ken Macdonald QC, a founding member of Matrix Chambers, has been elected as warden of Wadham College Oxford, with effect from September 2012.

Jennifer Cottle, of Dolmans, has been named junior lawyer of the year by the Cardiff & District Law Society

Richard Lissack QC of Outer Temple Chambers has been appointed as a corporate monitor for Innospec Inc.

Speechly Bircham is in the process of opening two new European offices in Luxembourg and Zurich.

Children to have a say in proposed reforms to family justice system

Launch marks pre-emptive move in “Tesco law” strategy

Companies and individuals who use cookies without asking first could be fined up to £500,000 under a new law.

Training provider Bond Solon has launched a new web learning programme for expert witnesses in family proceedings.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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