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Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7572

09 August 2013
IN THIS ISSUE

Teal Assurance Co Ltd v WR Berkley Insurance (Europe) Ltd and another company [2013] UKSC 57, [2013] All ER (D) 387 (Jul)
 

The courts have performed some important employment work recently, notes Ian Smith

 Jonathan Herring explains how divorce settlements can be unequal but fair

Who bears the risk for a working prisoner’s negligence? Robert O’Leary reports

Jag-Preet Kaur & Henrietta Mason provide a wills & probate update

Michael Tringham recalls tales of heir-hunting

Andrew Otchie reflects on the approach to granting an anti-anti suit injunction

McCaughey and others v United Kingdom (App no 43098/09) [2013] ECHR 43098/09, [2013] All ER (D) 260 (Jul)

Tchenguiz and another v Director of the Serious Fraud Office and others and other cases [2013] EWHC 2297 (QB), [2013] All ER (D) 357 (Jul)

Jones v Governing Body of Story Wood School and Children’s Centre UKEAT/0522/12/JOJ, [2013] All ER (D) 334 (Jul)

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

NEWS

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From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act
Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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