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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7488

01 November 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

R (on the application of Maxwell) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2011] EWCA Civ 1236, [2011] All ER (D) 232 (Oct)

R v Rheines [2011] EWCA Crim 2397, [2011] All ER (D) 221 (Oct)

Tesla Motors Ltd and another company v British Broadcasting Corporation [2011] EWHC 2760 (QB), [2011] All ER (D) 233 (Oct)

Gale and another v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2011] UKSC 49, [2011] All ER (D) 212 (Oct)

Chris Pamplin highlights changes & contrasts in the expert witness market

Michael Nash reflects on the changes to succession rules

Anton van Dellen surveys the damage following the removal of expert witness immunity in Jones v Kaney

HLE blogger Simon Hetherington anticipates the attorney general's address to the ECtHR on the question of prisoners' voting rights

Ming-Yee Shiu considers the circumstances in which fiduciary duties may be imposed upon employees

Dominic Regan returns to the consequences of the referral fee chop

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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
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'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
In NLJ this week, Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre marks Pro Bono Week by urging lawyers to recognise the emotional toll of pro bono work
Can a lease legally last only days—or even hours? Professor Mark Pawlowski of the University of Greenwich explores the question in this week's NLJ
RFC Seraing v FIFA, in which the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) reaffirmed that awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may be reviewed by EU courts on public-policy grounds, is under examination in this week's NLJ by Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law, Zurich
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