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The new kid on the block

11 March 2016 / Roger Smith
Issue: 7690 / Categories: Opinion
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The Legal Education Foundation has got off to a busy start, notes Roger Smith

The Legal Education Foundation is beginning to make its weight felt. You may remember that it was formed as the result of the somewhat controversial selling off of the College (now University) of Law to Montagu Private Equity in 2012. Montagu subsequently flogged the University to Global University Systems. The results for legal education are to be seen but the foundation was set up with the £200m obtained from the initial sale and just under £4m was dispersed in the last year.

The foundation’s main objective is “to promote the advancement of legal education and the study of law in all its branches”. Its trustees have set five objectives: to increase public understanding of, and capability to use, the law; to advance thinking, training and practice in legal education and legal services; to increase access to employment in the legal profession and, in particular, to advance social mobility and diversity; to develop a robust evidence base of needs in relation

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Appointment of former Solicitor General bolsters corporate investigations and white collar practice

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Firm strengthens international strategy with hire of global relations consultant

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Partner and associate join employment practice

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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