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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7500

08 February 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Government & ABI “stoking” compensation culture myth

Bar survey offers an insight into the working life of barristers

Court of Appeal rules that Tiffin is not employee

Concerns over regulatory compliance delays business activities

Alternative business structure requests hit 100

EAT finds law firm guilty of sexual orientation discrimination

Pinsent Masons and McGrigors have confirmed plans to merge after a partner vote.

Hill Dickinson’s insurance business team has appointed two senior lawyers and a developent manager.

Penningtons Solicitors LLP has recruited John Hargreaves to head its healthcare team.

Appleby has picked up a hat-trick of awards for its private client and trusts work.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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