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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7491

22 November 2011

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Foggia - Sociedade Gestora de Participacoes Sociais SA v Secretario de Estado dos Assuntos Fiscais: C-126/10 [2011] All ER (D) 134 (Nov)

Standard Bank Plc v Bin Issa Al Jaber [2011] EWHC 2866 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 117 (Nov)

R (on the application of Green) v Gloucestershire County Council; R (on the application of Rowe and another) v Somerset County Council [2011] EWHC 2687 (Admin), [2011] All ER (D) 111 (Nov)

Manning and another v King’s College Hospital NHS Trust [2011] EWHC 2954 (QB), [2011] All ER (D) 97 (Nov)

JSC BTA Bank v Shalabayev and another [2011] EWHC 2915 (Ch), [2011] All ER (D) 94 (Nov)

Seven Licensing Company Sarl and another company v FFG-Platinum SA and other companies [2011] EWHC 2967 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 125 (Nov)

Chris Pamplin looks at the extent to which an expert witness’s evidence might be affected by
earlier exposure to information

Simon Love & Tom Hunter provide a practitioner’s guide to litigants in person

Dominic Regan is driven to distraction by famous delinquents

Ministry of Justice shake-up to broaden judicial pool

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London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders

Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners

NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do

A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent

Your magistrates’ court needs you!

Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process

NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed

Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’

NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits

A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’

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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7491

MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Foot Anstey—five promotions