header-logo header-logo

Home Login E-newsletter About us
THIS ISSUE
Card image

Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7522

10 July 2012
IN THIS ISSUE
Practice—Striking out—Abuse of process Premium Content

Labrouche v Frey and others [2012] EWCA Civ 881, [2012] All ER (D) 33 (Jul)

13 July 2012
The three Ps Premium Content

E-disclosure requires preservation, preparation & proportionality, say Julian Miller & Sara Robertson

13 July 2012 / Julian Miller / Sara Robertson
Britain’s next top model? Premium Content

James Knight provides a heads-up on dispersed law firms

13 July 2012 / James Knight
9 to 5 or 24/7? Premium Content

Are legal professionals the hardest working, asks Jenni Morgan

13 July 2012 / Jenni Morgan
Book review: The Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government Works Premium Content

This painstaking approach is a hallmark of the work of the Constitution Unit

13 July 2012 / Stephen Hockman
Lucy Scott-Moncrieff

Lucy Scott-Moncrieff has been appointed as the president of the Law Society

12 July 2012
Rachel Richardson Carey Olson

Carey Olson employment lawyer Rachel Richardson has been promoted to senior associate

12 July 2012
Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC has been appointed as professor of law at Gresham College

12 July 2012
Rose Carey Speechly Bircham

Speechly Bircham has appointed Rose Carey as head of its immigration practice

12 July 2012
PIs under surveillance

Mulcaire & colleagues to face greater scrutiny

12 July 2012
Show
10
Results
Results
10
Results

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Read All
Sponsored by
London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

NEWS
Read All
NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Your magistrates’ court needs you!
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
Copyright © 2026 LexisNexis
back-to-top-scroll