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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7516

31 May 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Mackrell Turner Garrett has appointed a new criminal lawyer.

DAC Beachcroft LLP and Canadian firm McCague Borlack have agreed to enter into a formal association with effect from this month.

Lord Woolf to co-chair “inquiry into inquiries” for CEDR

Employer’s & public liability portal “drop-outs”

Copyright protection for certain artistic works could be extended to 70 years plus the life of the creator, bringing UK law into line with that of other EU member states.

The Co-operative Legal Services (Co-op LS) is to recruit a further 3,000 people to its legal team, creating the largest consumer law business in the UK.

Gillie Christou and Maria Ward, social workers in the Baby P case, have lost their unfair dismissal appeal (Christou and Ward v London Borough of Haringey UKEAT/0298/11).

Barristers are branching out by setting up fixed-price consumer businesses.

The pace of legislative change has slackened, according to research by Sweet & Maxwell.

Ryanair Holdings plc v Office of Fair Trading and another [2012] EWCA Civ 643, [2012] All ER (D) 168 (May)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Appointment of former Solicitor General bolsters corporate investigations and white collar practice

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Firm strengthens international strategy with hire of global relations consultant

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Partner and associate join employment practice

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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