The results of the 2016 Bar Council elections have been announced. 22 October 2015. The following people have been elected: Robin Allen QC, Derek Sweeting QC and Nick Vineall QC (self-employed QCs); Gemma de Cordova, Tim Devlin, Shobana Iyer, James Keeley, Eleanor Mawrey, Jacqueline Wall and Victoria Caroline Yates (self-employed juniors, over seven years’ call); Tom Cockroft, Richard Hoyle, Athena Markides and Francesca O’Neill (self-employed, less than seven years’ call); and Steven Bramley, Richard Posner, Angharad Mary Price and Grant Warnsby (employed, over seven years’ call). No applicants were received in the employed juniors under seven years’ call category.
29 October 2015
Bar Council election 2016
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok
Clyde Co strengthens energy transition and construction offering with hire of Suriya Ashok
Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon
Jurit appoints rare dual-qualified lawyer to expand Anglo-French private wealth expertise
Twenty Essex—Thomas Hibbs, Jack Hollingworth & Sam Pearce
Three new tenants join Twenty Essex
NEWS
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’
Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application
Consumer credit law is heading for its biggest shake-up in 50 years, with the Consumer Credit Act 1974 set to yield much of its detailed statutory machinery to FCA rules
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
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