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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7476

27 July 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Hill Dickinson LLP has hired Anthony Bailey as a legal director...

Clintons has promoted three senior assistants to its partnership.

Manches has announced that Siobhan Jones and Amanda Nelson, both senior associates, have been promoted to its partnership.

Kingsley Napley LLP has recruited William Healing as partner in the family team.

Sales of counterfeit L'Oréal goods infringes trademark says ECJ

News International investigators must disclose “exact remit”

Four Kenyans who claim they were tortured by the British Colonial authorities more than 50 years ago have been given permission to sue the Foreign Office

The licensing of alternative business structures (ABS) for lawyers, which had been due to take place on 6 October, has been delayed

The financially dependent Somalian mother of a British citizen does not have an Art 8 right to join her daughter in the UK, the Court of Appeal has held

Legal history was made last week with the conclusion of Britain’s largest ever divorce settlement, between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and his ex-wife, Galina Besharova

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Private wealth and tax team welcomes cross-border specialist as consultant

Freeths—Michelle Kirkland Elias

Freeths—Michelle Kirkland Elias

International hospitality and leisure specialist joins corporate team as partner

Flint Bishop—Deborah Niven

Flint Bishop—Deborah Niven

Firm appoints head of intellectual property to drive northern growth

NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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