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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

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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