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15 December 2011
Issue: 7494 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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DWF Eight promotions

DWF has promoted eight of its lawyers as partners or directors.

Rob Sheldon will become an associate partner in the corporate and commercial team.

Elizabeth Boyes has been promoted as associate partner in the banking and finance group. Helen Johnston will also become an associate partner in the group.

Within the firm’s insurance group, Lisa Hill, Patrick McBrien and Tony McLoughlin have been promoted to technical directors and Jewels Chamberlain has become director.

Lee Norman has been promoted to technical director in the litigation practice group.

Issue: 7494 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clarke Willmott—Megan Bradbury

Clarke Willmott—Megan Bradbury

Corporate team welcomes paralegal in Southampton

Howard Kennedy—Paul Moran

Howard Kennedy—Paul Moran

London firm strengthens real estate team with partner appointment

Cripps—Radius Law

Cripps—Radius Law

Commercial and technology practice boosted by team hire

NEWS
Pathfinder courts—renamed ‘Child focused courts’—are to be rolled out nationally, following a successful pilot where backlogs halved and cases were resolved up to seven and a half months faster
The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a £385,000 costs order against a father, in a case that centred on what is required to meet the threshold of ‘reprehensible or unreasonable’ behaviour
Centuries-old burial laws would be overhauled, under Law Commission proposals to address the burgeoning problem of shortage of cemetery space
The government has committed an extra £32m to women’s charities and services tackling addiction, trauma, abuse and homelessness
The Financial Ombudsman is poised for major reform to return it to a simple, impartial dispute resolution service
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