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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

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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