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Lawyers have until 16 November 2020 to submit their views on what issues the government should focus on when it forms the Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission

In the public interest? Michael Zander considers the government’s Overseas Operations Bill

The government is planning ‘an independent review into the operation of the Human Rights Act’, which will take place ‘in due course’, the Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland QC has confirmed in a letter replying to Harriet Harman, Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

The disturbing story of how the law came to support the trans-Atlantic slave trade is told in NLJ this week

Satvinder Juss investigates the shocking legal justifications that were used to excuse slavery

Cohabiting partners will be entitled to a bereavement payment along with married partners next week, following a change to the Fatal Accident Act

Home Office under fire for treatment of asylum seeker

Coalition of civil rights groups call for Act to be scrapped

The government could have breached human rights by failing to provide adequate PPE to doctors, nurses, care workers and others in the frontline, a parliamentary committee has warned

Inquests and inquiries into catastrophic events are beset with costly delay and duplication, pay insufficient heed to the requirements of those affected and often leave bereaved people and survivors feeling ‘confused, betrayed and re-traumatised’

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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

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Tribute to Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC

Human rights lawyers, social justice champion, co-founder of the law firm Bindmans, and NLJ columnist Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC has died at the age of 92 years

NLJ this week: Shareholder secrecy sunk

Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'

NLJ this week: The expanding remit of national security law

In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains

NLJ this week: Trauma-informed pro bono

In NLJ this week, Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre marks Pro Bono Week by urging lawyers to recognise the emotional toll of pro bono work

NLJ this week: When leases last hours

Can a lease legally last only days—or even hours? Professor Mark Pawlowski of the University of Greenwich explores the question in this week's NLJ

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Human rights

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith