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Firm announces new partners and legal directors across the UK
Agile firm boosts employment practice with partner appointment
Manchester firm gears for more group actions with legal director hire
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has published a speech by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, in relation to driving system change and addressing injustice, delivered during the Ombudsman Association conference on 21 June 2023. 
Partner appointed co-head of sports law team and wins scholarship to study strategic leadership in sport
Mourant appoints four partners in its Cayman Islands office
Keoghs continues expansion with the opening of new office in Leeds 
 Real estate disputes team welcomes partner in London
Mentoring and coaching are effective, but external diversity pledges are less so when it comes to tearing down barriers to women’s progress at work, according to the latest research from the Next 100 Years project.
Which judges are tipped for the top jobs? In this week’s 'Insider', Professor Dominic Regan, of City Law School, praises Dame Sue Carr, the next Chief Justice, and reveals how her career could have taken an alternative albeit still high-profile trajectory!
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Clarke Willmott—Matthew Roach

Partner joins commercial property team in Taunton office

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Farrer & Co—Richard Lane

Londstanding London firm appoints new senior partner

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Bird & Bird—Sue McLean

Commercial team in London welcomes technology specialist as partner

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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