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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7522

10 July 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Kerry Underwood balks at the transformation of legal “clients” into “consumers”

Achieving judicial diversity may require more work than is envisaged, suggests Geoffrey Bindman QC

Gross misconduct is no barrier to pay in lieu of notice, notes Anna Macey

Can information disclosed in family proceedings be released to particular individuals or bodies, asks David Burrows

In the second of two articles, Jon Holbrook considers fixed-term assured shorthold tenancies for housing associations

Briscoe v Tilt [2012] All ER (D) 09 (Jul)

Ali v Hoque [2012] EWCA Civ 274, [2012] All ER (D) 44 (Jul)

Hearst Communications Inc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-344/09 [2012] All ER (D) 22 (Jul)

R (on the application of Omar and others) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2012] EWHC 1737 (Admin), [2012] All ER (D) 06 (Jul)

Mayer v Hoar [2012] EWHC 1805 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 46 (Jul)

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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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