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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7517

06 June 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

David Greene warns of the danger of focusing on the cost of legal services

Deborah Evans questions the rationale behind the proposed portal extension

Rob Weir QC & Vijay Ganapathy examine a parent company’s liability to an employee of its subsidiary

David Regan takes the reins of the debate surrounding liability for horse-related injuries

Geraldine Morris advises a cautious approach to clean-break orders

They have just become more readily available. The High Court and county courts are now empowered to make a charging order without any default under an instalment judgment...

Khawar Qureshi QC highlights the key Arbitration Act 1996 decisions in 2011

R (on the application of KM) (by his mother and litigation friend) v Cambridgeshire County Council [2012] UKSC 23, [2012] All ER (D) 254 (May)

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Charman and another [2012] EWHC 1448 (Fam), [2012] All ER (D) 256 (May)

Disclosure control: are you ready for the big bang next year, asks HH Judge Simon Brown QC

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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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