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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7513

10 May 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Tim Lawson-Cruttenden suggests an Olympian counter-anarchy strategy

Richard Chapman raises the alarm over county court counter closures

Eighty years on, Keith Patten traces the legacy of Donoghue v Stevenson

Chris Bryden & Michael Salter consider tactics for the recovery of costs in employment cases

Ancillary relief v confiscation proceedings: what takes priority, asks Sarah Wood

It is impossible to draw a line under boundary disputes, discovers Jonathan Fowles

Back where we started & bankruptcy blows

Ahmad and others v United Kingdom (App Nos 24027/07, 11949/08, 36742/08, 66911/09 and 67354/09) [2012] All ER (D) 148 (Apr)

AA (Somalia) v Entry Clearance officer (Addis Ababa) [2012] EWCA Civ 563, [2012] All ER (D) 06 (May)

R (on the application of Gallastegui) v Westminster City Council [2012] EWHC 1123 (Admin), [2012] All ER (D) 144 (Apr)

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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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