Anna Bradley predicts a bright future for alternative business structures
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP is to open an office in Singapore with the hire of insurance and reinsurance partner Mark Errington from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).
Hill Dickinson has appointed Sean Williams as partner in the private client team...
Hogan Lovells has hired partner Patric McGonigal to its international litigation and arbitration practice in Tokyo.
James Harrison examines the impact of bankruptcy on marriage
Malcolm Dowden examines the impact of devolution on the UK’s waste law
Lucy Wyles dives headfirst into the latest personal injury developments
Practitioners should tread carefully around product liability claims, says Karen O’Sullivan
For CPR telephone hearings, approved providers are now Kidatu (0800 279 0405) and Arkadin (020 8600 0751).
Obsession Hair and Day Spa Ltd v Hi-Lite Electrical Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1148, [2011] All ER (D) 228 (Oct)
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Laytons ETL—Maximilian Kraitt
Commercial firm strengthens real estate disputes team with associate hire
Switalskis—three appointments
Firm appoints three directors to board
Browne Jacobson—seven promotions
Six promoted to partner and one to legal director across UK and Ireland offices
From blockbuster judgments to procedural shake-ups, the courts are busy reshaping litigation practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School hails the Court of Appeal's 'exquisite judgment’ in Mazur restoring the role of supervised non-qualified staff, and highlights a ‘mammoth’ damages ruling likened to War and Peace, alongside guidance on medical reporting fees, where a pragmatic 25% uplift was imposed
