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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7523

17 July 2012
IN THIS ISSUE
Vote of no confidence? Premium Content

Craig Barlow & Jason Hadden consider the Scoppola controversy

19 July 2012 / Craig Barlow / Jason Hadden
A position of trust Premium Content

Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions

19 July 2012 / Ian Smith
Care home plan is “Elastoplast”

Government plan to defer care home costs for pensioners attracts criticism

18 July 2012
Reigning Supreme

Former Supreme Court critic to become its president

18 July 2012
Catholic church vicariously liable

Church legally responsible for child abuse by priests

18 July 2012
Legal aid losses

LSC accounts qualified for the fourth year running

18 July 2012
Bad luck for badgers

Legal action to prevent a planned badger cull has failed in the High Court

18 July 2012
Scottish Justice

Civil liberties organisation launches in Scotland

18 July 2012
HLE bribery debate

Solicitor General introduced lively panel debate

18 July 2012
Minicabs v taxis

Minicabs not allowed to use bus lanes

18 July 2012
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Carey Olsen—Patrick Ormond

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Partner joinscorporate and finance practice in British Virgin Islands

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Dawson Cornwell—Naomi Angell

Firm strengthens children department with adoption and surrogacy expert

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Penningtons Manches Cooper—Graham Green

Media and technology expert joins employment team as partner in Cambridge

NEWS
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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’ 
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