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16 October 2019
Issue: 7860 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Training & education
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Judge Brenda hits the shelves

Baroness Hale, president of the Supreme Court, is now also the subject of an illustrated children’s book. 

Equal to Everything: Judge Brenda and the Supreme Court, by Afua Hirsch and Henny Beaumont, tells Lady Hale’s inspirational story through the eyes of Ama, a fictional young girl from Lady Hale’s hometown of Richmond, North Yorkshire, who visits the Supreme Court. Real cases are used to explain important concepts. Dr Laura Janes, chair of Legal Action Group, which published the title, said: ‘This book shows children that the law belongs to everybody and is within their reach, wherever they have started out.’

Issue: 7860 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Training & education
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
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