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Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7392

05 November 2009
IN THIS ISSUE

Part two: agreements to negotiate, are they enforceable? ask Antonio Bueno QC & Deborah Tompkinson

Councils into forced marriages; unfair shock; and credit reference peril

Timothy Dutton QC considers the impact of the Legal Services Act on the independent Bar

What options do you have when your opponent fabricates evidence? Stuart Paterson & Gareth Keillor

Re Sigma Finance Corporation [2009] UKSC 2

Authors: Spencer Keen & Richard Oulton

R (on the application of L) v Metropolitan Police Commissioner (secretary of state for the Home Department and another intervening) [2009] UKSC 3

Potential for up to two years in prison if government plans receive go ahead

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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
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
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