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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7476

27 July 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Hill Dickinson LLP has hired Anthony Bailey as a legal director...

Clintons has promoted three senior assistants to its partnership.

Manches has announced that Siobhan Jones and Amanda Nelson, both senior associates, have been promoted to its partnership.

Kingsley Napley LLP has recruited William Healing as partner in the family team.

Sales of counterfeit L'Oréal goods infringes trademark says ECJ

News International investigators must disclose “exact remit”

Four Kenyans who claim they were tortured by the British Colonial authorities more than 50 years ago have been given permission to sue the Foreign Office

The licensing of alternative business structures (ABS) for lawyers, which had been due to take place on 6 October, has been delayed

The financially dependent Somalian mother of a British citizen does not have an Art 8 right to join her daughter in the UK, the Court of Appeal has held

Legal history was made last week with the conclusion of Britain’s largest ever divorce settlement, between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and his ex-wife, Galina Besharova

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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