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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7501

14 February 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

David Greene considers the implications of the reform of the county court system

Jeremy Nixon considers some of the employment law implications of the London Olympic Games

A divided Supreme Court has upheld & extended the Johnson exclusion zone, notes Anna Macey

Sarah Whitten endorses government proposals to encourage parental involvement

When is a travel agent not an agent, asks Katherine Deal

Barbara Hewson examines the uneasy relationship between guardians & resistive patients

Will government proposals under the Finance Bill increase gifts to charity, asks Emma Satterly

Michael Tringham untangles the latest family spats

Will-makers should put their affairs in order early, says Paul Grimwood

Dominic Regan puzzles over the latest Pt 36 conundrum

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

NEWS
The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers
In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives
Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ
James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights
Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments
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