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17 November 2017
Issue: 7770 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Legal Personality: call for nominations

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Nominations are invited for the Legal Personality of the Year award, an important category for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2018. This award honours an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere in the past 12 months. Current suggestions are Gina Miller, lead claimant in the Article 50 Brexit case, Victoria Vasey, director of North Kensington Law Centre, Adam Crème, Unison’s head of legal services, and Lady Brenda Hale, President of the Supreme Court. Other suggestions are welcome. Please submit entries at www.LexisNexis.co.uk/legalawards2018 by 1 December.

Issue: 7770 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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