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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7538

13 November 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Ruth Daniel highlights the importance of pro bono work following recent legal reform

Rad Kohanzad slams government plans to allow employees to exchange employment rights for shares

Is it possible to regulate the press but still uphold its freedom, asks Iain Goldrein QC

Employers enjoy a high degree of flexibility when choosing redundancy selection criteria, says Antoine Tinnion

Clare Renton explains the 1996 Hague Convention newly in force

John Ogilvie & Ardil Salem explore what SerVaas means for judgment creditors pursuing state-owned assets

NHS Trust v D (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) [2012] EWHC 886 (COP), [2012] All ER (D) 171 (Apr)

Petrochemical Industries Company (KSC) v Dow Chemical Company [2012] EWHC 2739 (Comm), [2012] All ER (D) 83 (Nov)

JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov and others [2012] EWCA Civ 1411, [2012] All ER (D) 66 (Nov)

Stevenson and another v Singh and others [2012] EWHC 2880 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 76 (Nov)

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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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