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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7525

31 July 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Robert Kay crunches the numbers involved in securing & insuring the London 2012 Olympic Games

What avenues are open for the intervened solicitor, asks Chris Gadd

Can costs be ordered against a local authority, asks Jonathan Herring

Hayley McLorinan tackles the issue of recoverable heads of loss between jurisdictions

Malcolm Dowden investigates local authority written statements & contaminated land

Katherine Hardcastle examines the extra-territorial ambit of the Serious Crime Act 2007

How do banks juggle duty to their customers with money-laundering obligations, asks Simon Goldstone

Michael Kershaw QC highlights the difficulty of multiple meanings in court statements

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2012] UKSC 39

Johann MK Blumenthal GMBH & Co KG and another v Itochu Corp [2012] EWCA Civ 996, [2012] All ER (D) 240 (Jul)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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