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HBJ Gateley Wareing, which has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, has opened a new London office.

Beachcroft LLP has announced a bumper crop of new partners and associates.

Radcliffe Chambers has been joined by Shantanu Majumdar (1992 call) and Mark Thomson (2006 call) from Lamb Chambers and HM Revenue & Customs respectively.

West End law firm Boodle Hatfield has strengthened its 35-strong commercial property practice with the appointment of partner James Black.

SJ Berwin LLP has promoted six lawyers to partnership.

Wilsons, the private client and charity specialist firm, is bucking the current trend of law firms and opening an office in Lincoln's Inn Fields this week.

Dr John McMullen has joined Short Richardson & Forth LLP as an employment partner. John was previously a partner at Watson Burton LLP and has 25 years' experience in employment law.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Sidley—James Inness

Sidley—James Inness

Partner joins capital markets team in London office

Haynes Boone—William Cecil

Haynes Boone—William Cecil

Firm announces appointment of partner as UK general counsel

Devonshires—Nicholas Barrows

Devonshires—Nicholas Barrows

Firm appoints first chief marketing officer to drive growth strategy

NEWS
Cheating in driving tests is surging—and courts are responding firmly. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort Law School charts a rise in impersonation and tech-assisted fraud, with 2,844 attempts recorded in a year
As AI-generated ‘deepfake’ images proliferate, the law may already have the tools to respond. In NLJ this week, Jon Belcher of Excello Law argues that such images amount to personal data processing under UK GDPR
In a striking financial remedies ruling, the High Court cut a wife’s award by 40% for coercive and controlling behaviour. Writing in NLJ this week, Chris Bryden and Nicole Wallace of 4 King’s Bench Walk analyse LP v MP [2025] EWFC 473
A €60.9m award to Kylian Mbappé has refocused attention on football’s controversial ‘ethics bonus’ clauses. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Estelle Ivanova of Valloni Attorneys at Law examines how such provisions sit within French labour law
A seemingly dry procedural update may prove potent. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ this week, Stephen Gold explains that new CPR 31.12A—part of the 193rd update—fills a ‘lacuna’ exposed in McLaren Indy v Alpa Racing
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