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A4ID sets out the role of the global legal community & the support offered by Advocates for International Development
The Supreme Court will sit in Manchester next March—the first time it has sat outside one of the UK’s four capital cities.
The Law Society, together with campaign group Lawyers for Lawyers, has called on the Iranian government to halt the arbitrary arrest, detention and ill treatment of lawyers. 
In the second in a series of articles in NLJ on child abductions, Mani Singh Basi looks at cases where children go on holiday and are not returned home. 
Mani Singh Basi examines the benefits & limitations of the Hague Convention in child abduction cases
"One feels that one is experiencing some of the horror of living under an evil regime and what it takes to oppose such a regime as a lawyer."
Writing in NLJ this week, Marc Weller, professor of international law at Cambridge University and a barrister at Doughty Street, asks whether President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine represents an attempt to revive the use of force as an acceptable tool of national policy

Lawyers condemn ‘act of war’ and warn of exposure to sanctions

LexisNexis UK has collated a list of all EU instruments relating to actions taken in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as of 1 March 2022
Lawyers have called on the government to do its best to help avert a refugee and humanitarian crisis, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Paula Myers to private capital team in Leeds

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

Law firm mfg Solicitors announces five promotions at Birmingham office

Brabners—six promotions

Brabners—six promotions

Brabners adds six to partnership in record year for partner promotions

NEWS
The legal profession's AI challenge extends far beyond fabricated case citations, according to a warning about the next phase of technological risk
Law firms should use the transition period before the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) assumes anti-money laundering (AML) supervision to strengthen governance and compliance, experts have warned
Cross-border disputes increasingly demand creative approaches to gathering evidence, with litigators needing to look beyond traditional letters of request
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified the distinction between contracts of 'indefinite' and 'perpetual' duration, with potentially significant implications for commercial drafting
The Court of Appeal was entitled to uphold the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, according to an analysis of the ruling
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