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Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7672

16 October 2015
IN THIS ISSUE

Whiston Bristow & Giles Hutt review the Shorter & Flexible Trials Pilot Schemes currently running in the High Court

Worthing and another v Lloyds Bank plc [2015] EWHC 2836 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 84 (Oct)

O’Brien v Ministry of Justice; Walker v Innospec and others [2015] EWCA Civ 1000, [2015] All ER (D) 46 (Oct)

Re B (a child) (child arrangements order: prematurity of judge’s decision) [2015] EWCA Civ 974, [2015] All ER (D) 381 (Jul)

Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner C-362/14, [2015] All ER (D) 34 (Oct)

MR H TV Ltd (formerly known as CAN Associates TV Ltd) v ITV2 Ltd [2015] EWHC 2840 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 85 (Oct)

Alec Samuels examines the ins & outs of hot-tubbing

FAS v Secretary of State for the Home Department and another [2015] EWCA Civ 951, [2015] All ER (D) 42 (Oct)

Winston Jacob discusses solicitors’ agents, rights of audience & the chambers’ advocate

Mohidin and another v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis and others [2015] EWHC 2740 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 27 (Oct)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has secured £1.1m in its first use of an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO)

County court cases are speeding up, with the median time from claim to hearing 62 weeks for fast, intermediate and multi-track claims—5.4 weeks faster than last year
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