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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7477

02 August 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

James Wilson recalls the trials of Fatty Arbuckle

Halsbury's Law Exchange blogger Gary L Walters studies post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of a rape trial

Roger Smith explores opposition to the Human Rights Act

Stephen Levinson ponders the legalities of restraining strikes

Charles Pigott takes time out to revisit statutory holiday entitlement

Graham Coy sings the praises of collaborative law

Liability & legionnaires’ disease, by Matthew Chapman & Paul McClorry

How can a tenant’s guarantor guarantee an assignee’s liability, ask Joanna Bhatia & Malcolm Dowden

Sarah Watson assesses the lawfulness of a school’s ban on cornrows

Alex Leslie & Stewart Duffy examine developments around the right to a fair disciplinary process

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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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