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19 May 2011
Issue: 7466 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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MFG Solicitors promotions

MFG Solicitors has promoted two new partners and an associate.

Tom Devey who joined MFG in 2002 becomes partner within the firm’s rural and agricultural division.

The corporate division’s Alex Hall has also been promoted to partner. During his four years with the firm he has developed a niche practice acting for dental practices, doctors’ surgeries and other healthcare businesses.

Also promoted is Helen Branson who is now an associate. Helen has been with MFG since 2003 and is currently the firm’s finance director.

Chairman Maynard Burton (also pictured) comments: “These are three high calibre appointments and add even more depth to the talent we have here at MFG.”
 

Issue: 7466 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
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Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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