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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7407

04 March 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Michael Tringham traces the expensive consequences of avoiding a bill

R (on the application of Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs [2010] All ER (D) 301 (Feb)

Buckland v Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation [2010] EWCA Civ 121, [2010] All ER (D) 299 (Feb)

Linsen International Ltd v Humpuss Sea Transport PTE Ltd and another [2010] EWHC 303 (Comm), [2010] All ER (D) 258 (Feb)

Hotel Cipriani SRL and others v Cipriani (Grosvenor Street) Ltd and others [2010] EWCA Civ 110

Audio-visual media regulations 2010

Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010

Pensions Act 2008 (Commencement No 6) Order 2010

Implementing Jackson

The number of complaints against judges has dropped, according to the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC).In its third annual report, the OJC reveals it received 1,339 complaints between April 2008 and March 2009, a seven per cent reduction on the previous year.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Winckworth Sherwood—Tim Foley

Winckworth Sherwood—Tim Foley

Property litigation practice strengthened by partner hire

Kingsley Napley—Romilly Holland

Kingsley Napley—Romilly Holland

International arbitration team specialist joins the team

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

NEWS
The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round
Can a chief constable be held responsible for disobedient officers? Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth, professor of public law at De Montfort University, examines a Court of Appeal ruling that answers firmly: yes
Neurotechnology is poised to transform contract law—and unsettle it. Writing in NLJ this week, Harry Lambert, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, and Dr Michelle Sharpe, barrister at the Victorian Bar, explore how brain–computer interfaces could both prove and undermine consent
Comparators remain the fault line of discrimination law. In this week's NLJ, Anjali Malik, partner at Bellevue Law, and Mukhtiar Singh, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, review a bumper year of appellate guidance clarifying how tribunals should approach ‘actual’ and ‘evidential’ comparators. A new six-stage framework stresses a simple starting point: identify the treatment first
In cross-border divorces, domicile can decide everything. In NLJ this week, Jennifer Headon, legal director and head of international family, Isobel Inkley, solicitor, and Fiona Collins, trainee solicitor, all at Birketts LLP, unpack a Court of Appeal ruling that re-centres nuance in jurisdiction disputes. The court held that once a domicile of choice is established, the burden lies on the party asserting its loss
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