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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7477

02 August 2011
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The Supreme Court has delivered an important ruling on the dividing line between defined benefit and defined contribution occupational pension schemes

Lease guarantees left worthless by K/S Victoria Street case ruling

The High Court has found the Daily Mirror and The Sun newspapers guilty of contempt of court over articles concerning a suspect, Christopher Jefferies, arrested after the killing of Joanna Yeates

Employment equality regulations do not apply to arbitrators

The force was with the manufacturer of the original Star Wars stormtrooper helmets in a Supreme Court hearing on copyright last week

Two Davenport Lyons partners have been fined £20,000 for sending intimidating letters to people accused of illegal filesharing

A 36-page guide to reporting the family courts has been published by the president of the family division, Sir Nicholas Wall, the Judicial College and the Society of Editors

The Supreme Court has given veterans involved in British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s permission to appeal the Court of Appeal’s judgment that nine of the ten test cases are time barred

Carey Olsen has appointed Michael McAuley as a new counsel to its litigation department in Guernsey.

Clifford Chance has recruited Monica Sah to join the firm’s financial regulatory and markets practice as a partner.

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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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