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22 January 2021
Issue: 7917 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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NLJ this week: A future in social justice

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The Justice First Fellowship scheme now has more than 100 Fellows working in the social justice sector

The scheme, launched by The Legal Education Foundation (TLEF) in 2014, funds trainee solicitor posts at social justice organisations across the UK. It was set up in response to concerns too few social justice lawyers were coming through the ranks due to funding cuts and years of under-investment.

Fellows are given additional training in leadership and management skills, and are expected to spend one day a week on a project of their choice.

Writing in NLJ this week, TLEF comms head Fiona Bawdon speaks to various hosts and Fellows about their experiences on the scheme.

Applications to host a Justice First Fellow are open until 17 February 2021, see here

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Arc Pensions Law—Matthew Swynnerton

Chair of the Association of Pension Lawyers joins as partner

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Ampa Group—Kamal Chauhan

Group names Shakespeare Martineau partner head of Sheffield office

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Blake Morgan—four promotions

Four legal directors promoted to partner across UK offices

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

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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