Issue: Vol 164, Issue 7589

Is virtual witness testimony legal fact or largely fiction, asks Penny Cooper

John McMullen surveys cases on service provision change, transfer of employment rights, & objection to transfer

Confidentiality, privacy & disclosure: David Burrows examines the duty of disclosure under common law in the second of two articles

Siobhan Jones discusses the benefits & burdens of covenants

Bring judicial review claims promptly, warns Nicholas Dobson

R (on the application of Hodkin and another) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages [2013] UKSC 77, [2013] All ER (D) 100 (Dec)

Child sort-of-support, credit hire defence win, pay cut for experts & Mitchell: what else?

Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners C-495/12, [2013] All ER (D) 203 (Dec)

Wallace and another v Calmac Ferries Ltd UKEATS/0014/13/BI, [2013] All ER (D) 242 (Dec)

R (on the application of Secretary of State for Home Department) v Southwark Crown Court [2013] All ER (D) 197 (Dec)