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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7492

30 November 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Listen & learn, says Roger Smith, the judges are speaking

Stephen Levinson puts Vince Cable’s new regime for employment tribunals under the spotlight

Simon Cheetham wonders why tribunal recommendations are such a rare beast

Proceed with care. Siobhan Jones distils the lessons practitioners can take away from Kernott v Jones

Amy Taylor predicts the effect of the EC Maintenance Regulation on the courts in England & Wales

Charles Brasted & Julia Marlow count the costs of environmental JR

Karen O’Sullivan provides a crash course in the issues that arise around liability in road traffic litigation

Michael Cook examines the financial implications of litigants in person

R (on the application of Mousa) v Secretary of State for Defence and another [2011] EWCA Civ 1334, [2011] ALl ER (D) 160 (Nov)

Parbulk II A/S v Heritage Maritime Ltd SA [2011] EWHC 2917 (Comm), [2011] All ER (D) 155 (Nov)

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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
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'
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
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