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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7484

04 October 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Ty Jones, head of values and corporate responsibility at national law firm, DWF, has been appointed to the disability employment engagement steering group...

Premier League television rights shaken by European Court of Justice ruling

Rise in qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims

Human rights lawyers have dismissed home secretary Theresa May’s proposal to reform the immigration rules as “unworkable”

Government guidance unlawfully condoned the practice of “hooding” foreign detainees, the High Court has ruled this week

Solicitors who “blow the whistle” on misconduct could be given more lenient sanctions, under Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) plans

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators provide results of five-continent study

New 532-page handbook launched online

HLE blogger Charles Foster examines the emotive issue of the withdrawal of artificial nutrition & hydration from patients

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
Human rights lawyers, social justice champion, co-founder of the law firm Bindmans, and NLJ columnist Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC has died at the age of 92 years
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
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