Malcolm Dowden

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Malcolm Dowden, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP

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Malcolm Dowden, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs (UK) LLP

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Jen Hawkins & Malcolm Dowden advise when consent is required for a roadside advertisement

Could a presumption in favour of sustainability have the opposite effect, ask Malcolm Dowden & Jen Hawkins

How can a tenant’s guarantor guarantee an assignee’s liability, ask Joanna Bhatia & Malcolm Dowden

Feed-in tariffs: thinking big, or redefining small, asks Malcolm Dowden

Jen Hawkins & Malcolm Dowden explain why the Localism Bill heralds false hope, not a new dawn

CRC—the new “carbon tax”? asks Malcolm Dowden

Emma Humphreys & Malcolm Dowden explain why the right to light should not be taken lightly

Malcolm Dowden & Simon Ewing discuss issues affecting the coalition government’s energy objectives

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Set creates new client and business development role amid growth

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

Sports disputes practice launchedwith partner appointment

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans

Tax and succession planning offering expands with returning partner

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Who’s on the 2026 silk list?

The rank of King’s Counsel (KC) has been awarded to 96 barristers, and no solicitors, in the latest silk round

NLJ this week: When your brain signs the contract

Neurotechnology is poised to transform contract law—and unsettle it. Writing in NLJ this week, Harry Lambert, barrister at Outer Temple Chambers and founder of the Centre for Neurotechnology & Law, and Dr Michelle Sharpe, barrister at the Victorian Bar, explore how brain–computer interfaces could both prove and undermine consent

NLJ this week: Comparators—how close is close enough?

Comparators remain the fault line of discrimination law. In this week's NLJ, Anjali Malik, partner at Bellevue Law, and Mukhtiar Singh, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, review a bumper year of appellate guidance clarifying how tribunals should approach ‘actual’ and ‘evidential’ comparators. A new six-stage framework stresses a simple starting point: identify the treatment first

NLJ this week: Domicile—more than where you live

In cross-border divorces, domicile can decide everything. In NLJ this week, Jennifer Headon, legal director and head of international family, Isobel Inkley, solicitor, and Fiona Collins, trainee solicitor, all at Birketts LLP, unpack a Court of Appeal ruling that re-centres nuance in jurisdiction disputes. The court held that once a domicile of choice is established, the burden lies on the party asserting its loss

NLJ this week: Arbitration’s fast lane—with guardrails

Early determination is no longer a novelty in arbitration. In NLJ this week, Gustavo Moser, arbitration specialist lawyer at Lexis+, charts the global embrace of summary disposal powers, now embedded in the Arbitration Act 1996 and mirrored worldwide. Tribunals may swiftly dismiss claims with ‘no real prospect of succeeding’, but only if fairness is preserved

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Malcolm Dowden

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Red Lion Chambers—Maurice MacSweeney

Kingsley Napley—Tim Lowles

mfg Solicitors—Tom Evans