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10 April 2024
Issue: 8066 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , In Court
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Making the rules: new CPR committee member

The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr Justice Pepperall as a High Court Judge member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee for three years until March 2027
The committee makes rules of court and sets out the practice and procedure for the county court, High Court and Court of Appeal. Sir Edward Pepperall was called to the Bar in 1989, was appointed a Recorder in 2009 and took silk in 2013. He is a judge of the Technology & Construction Court and sits in the King’s Bench Division.
Issue: 8066 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , In Court
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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