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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7477

02 August 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

The Supreme Court has delivered an important ruling on the dividing line between defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension schemes

Lease guarantees left worthless by K/S Victoria Street case ruling

The High Court has found the Daily Mirror and The Sun newspapers guilty of contempt of court over articles concerning a suspect, Christopher Jefferies, arrested after the killing of Joanna Yeates

Employment equality regulations do not apply to arbitrators

The force was with the manufacturer of the original Star Wars stormtrooper helmets in a Supreme Court hearing on copyright last week

Two Davenport Lyons partners have been fined £20,000 for sending intimidating letters to people accused of illegal filesharing

A 36-page guide to reporting the family courts has been published by the president of the family division, Sir Nicholas Wall, the Judicial College and the Society of Editors

The Supreme Court has given veterans involved in British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s judgment that nine of the ten test cases are time barred

Carey Olsen has appointed Michael McAuley as a new counsel to its litigation department in Guernsey.

Clifford Chance has recruited Monica Sah to join the firm’s financial regulatory and markets practice as a partner.

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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
Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
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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