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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7499

31 January 2012

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The austerity plan from 1 April 2012 is to restrict the opening of public counters at all county courts and Family Proceedings Centres...

West Tankers Inc v Allianz Spa and another [2012] EWCA Civ 27, [2012] All ER (D) 127 (Jan)

Leathley v Bar Standards Board [2012] All ER (D) 110 (Jan)

Re Virtualpurple Professional Services Limited [2011] EWHC 3487 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 149 (Jan)

Star Reefers Pool Inc v JFC Group Co Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 14, [2012] All ER (D) 114 (Jan)

Thomas Brown Estates Ltd v Hunters Partners Ltd [2012] EWHC 30 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 122 (Jan)

Secretary of State for the Home Department v CE [2011] EWHC 3159 (Admin), [2012] All ER (D) 108 (Jan)

Armstrong DLW GmbH v Winnington Networks Ltd [2012] EWHC 10 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 64 (Jan)

Nicholas Fox follows recent developments in Cayman law relating to freestanding Mareva injunctions

QBE Management Services (UK) Ltd v Dymoke and others [2012] EWHC 80 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 156 (Jan)

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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 162, Issue 7499

MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Foot Anstey—five promotions