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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7478

10 July 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

How Bribery Act-compliant is UK Plc?

Dominic Regan sifts through the Jackson winners & losers

Roger Smith considers what might happen to the Human Rights Act

Tom Morrison returns with his quarterly review of the world of information law

Chris Bryden & Michael Salter examine the award of uplifts in employment tribunals

Keith Patten observes the move away from compensation for claimants who were in part liable for their injury

Graham Sievers analyses parental alcohol use, from abstinence through to chronic abuse

Could a presumption in favour of sustainability have the opposite effect, ask Malcolm Dowden & Jen Hawkins

Alternative dispute resolution Guide 2011

Susan Nash provides an end of term report on human rights developments

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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
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
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
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
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
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
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