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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7488

01 November 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

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)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

Partner appointed as head of residential conveyancing for England

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels

Specialist firm enhances corporate healthcare practice with partner appointment

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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