John Collins of Zenith Chambers has won this year’s Bar Pro Bono Award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work over a career spanning six decades. In the past five years, Collins has worked on 11 cases for the Bar Pro Bono Unit. He is currently acting pro bono in the inheritance case of Ilott v Mitson [2015] EWCA Civ 797, which is going to the Supreme Court. His commitment to pro bono work in the pollution case, Bell v Northumbria Water [2016] EWHC 133, was praised by the presiding judge, Judge Saffaman.
19 October 2016
Bar Pro Bono Award
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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