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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7537

08 November 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Colin Munro examines how we arrived at the referendum stage in Scotland and where we go after the vote

Would an independent Scotland automatically be a member state of the EU? Marc Weller investigates

Jonathan Herring discusses the nature of child welfare

How far does the law protect employees from sexual harassment, ask Chris Bryden & Michael Salter

Are motorcyclists adrenalin junkies or vulnerable road users? Karen O’Sullivan examines the approach of the courts

The latest on PI damages & the interview of a lifetime

Courts continue to wrestle with the thorny issue of contract construction, as Ian Pease reports

Turville Heath Inc v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd [2012] EWHC 3019 (TCC), [2012] All ER (D) 10 (Nov)

Abercrombie & others v Aga Rangemaster Ltd UKEAT/0099/12/SM, [2012] All ER (D) 334 (Oct)

Farrar v Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police UKEAT/0528/11/RN, [2012] All ER (D) 342 (Oct)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

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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