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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7534

16 October 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Roger Smith peruses the legal stories hitting the headlines

Is our right to protest under threat, asks Ruth Brander

Marital agreements: who’s got it right? Kate Molan & Sarah Caroline Boyle

Heather Beckett highlights the complexities of dental injuries & medical reporting agencies

Can a criminal squatter acquire title by adverse possession? Christopher Cant investigates

Victims of misleading & aggressive demands for payment need protection, say David Hertzell & Amy Smith

Bill Gibson emphasises the importance of file maintenance to costs recovery

Charlie Clarke-Jervoise explores the brave new world of costs management

Clive Thomas emphasises the importance of the careful drafting of Pt 36 offers

James Sharpe provides an update on costs protection & protected parties

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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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