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22 January 2009
Issue: 7353 / Categories: Legal News , Discrimination , Employment
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The Bar Council and Law Society will contribute to a review of social mobility led by MP Alan Milburn.

The Bar Council and Law Society will contribute to a review of social mobility led by MP Alan Milburn. The review, which aims to improve the prospects of state educated candidates seeking to enter the professions, was launched this month. The Bar Council is currently implementing Lord Neuberger’s 2007 inquiry into the social background of barristers, which made 57 recommendations. Bar Council  chairman, Desmond Browne QC, says there are no “quick fixes”, and the process of ensuring diversity at the Bar should start at school.

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FOIL—Bridget Tatham

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NEWS
Solicitors are installing panic buttons and thumb print scanners due to ‘systemic and rising’ intimidation including death and arson threats from clients
Ministers’ decision to scrap plans for their Labour manifesto pledge of day one protection from unfair dismissal was entirely predictable, employment lawyers have said
Cryptocurrency is reshaping financial remedy cases, warns Robert Webster of Maguire Family Law in NLJ this week. Digital assets—concealable, volatile and hard to trace—are fuelling suspicions of hidden wealth, yet Form E still lacks a section for crypto-disclosure
NLJ columnist Stephen Gold surveys a flurry of procedural reforms in his latest 'Civil way' column
Paper cyber-incident plans are useless once ransomware strikes, argues Jack Morris of Epiq in NLJ this week
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