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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

Kingsley Napley—Claire Green

Kingsley Napley—Claire Green

Firm announces appointment of chief legal officer

Weightmans—Emma Eccles & Mark Woodall

Weightmans—Emma Eccles & Mark Woodall

Firm bolsters Manchester insurance practice with double partner appointment

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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