David Christie

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    Magnates for law: oligarchs in London

    2012-09-12T00:00:00

    Readers will be familiar with the phenomenon of the Commercial Court sitting in London (a specialist division of the Queen’s Bench Division) and playing host to a good deal of litigation involving Russian oligarchs and others among the central and eastern European super-rich. But just how much may come as ...

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    Mental health and disability discrimination protection

    2010-06-21T00:00:00

    A person has a ‘disability’ if he or she has a mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse impact on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities – section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Alcohol and drug addiction as well as five ...