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Legal Access Challenge: ideas wanted

10 July 2019
Issue: 7848 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal services
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Anyone hoping to take part in the Legal Access Challenge has until 11 August to apply. 

More than 85 entrepreneurs, legal professionals, technologists, law schools and charities have already expressed interest in the scheme, an 18-month programme to encourage innovators seeking to use technology to widen access to legal services. More than £250,000 of funding is available. The scheme is run by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and innovation foundation Nesta Challenges. Anna Bradley, SRA chair, said: ‘Whether you’re a charity with a good idea or a tech firm looking to partner with a legal expert, I’d encourage you to get involved.’

Issue: 7848 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Legal services
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

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Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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