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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7509

03 April 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Martin Burns looks at the impact of removing immunity from property expert witnesses

Kevin Dick follows the fight against conveyancing fraud

Peter Vaines rounds up the latest developments in the world of tax

They're over. The trek to the commissioner for oaths, or the court officer empowered to administer, and the privilege of paying for the experience of swearing at them....

Audley Sheppard & Joachim Delaney welcome Indian moves to be recognised as an international arbitration hub

Costs management & docketed judges: are you ready for the big bang next year, asks HH Judge Simon Brown QC

Durham v BAI (Run Off) Ltd (in scheme of arrangement) and other cases [2012] UKSC 14, [2012] All ER (D) 201 (Mar)

A Local Authority and others v DL [2012] EWCA Civ 253, [2012] All ER (D) 211 (Mar)

Re Combined Insurance Company of America and other companies [2012] EWHC 632 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 182 (Mar)

Air Transworld Ltd v Bombardier Inc [2012] EWHC 243 (Comm), [2012] All ER (D) 193 (Mar)

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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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