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12 November 2021
Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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NLJ this week: Breaking the mould

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Chief Master Shuman made legal history as the first woman appointed Chief Chancery Master

Interviewed by journalist Grania Langdon-Down for this week’s NLJ, Chief Master Shuman talks about her career to date, the conversation about whether to keep the title ‘Master’ or move to something the public would understand means a judge, and the importance of diversity and equality of opportunity (and more importantly how to achieve it).

Quoted by Langdon-Down, Shuman says: ‘Our profile needs to change. But that’s true at all levels in the senior judiciary.” 

Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

WSP Solicitors—David Ashcroft & Jessica O’Shea

Commercial property and child law teams expand with senior hires

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Duxton Hill Chambers—Lucas Bastin KC & Joshua Hiew

Set expands London and Singapore offering with senior international disputes hires

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Gilson Gray—Gregor Duthie & Stephen Forsyth

Firm strengthens real estate and litigation teams with partner promotions

NEWS
Uber has built a formidable strategy for insulating itself from liability for drivers’ conduct, but the legal terrain differs sharply between the US and England and Wales
The Civil Justice Council’s review of Part III of the Solicitors Act 1974 could mark the end of what one commentator calls an ‘outdated’ and overly technical regime governing solicitor-client fee disputes
The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026 marks a constitutional watershed by severing the centuries-old link between hereditary titles and automatic membership of the upper chamber
Artificial intelligence, proportionality and public decision-making are under increasing judicial scrutiny, according to the latest public law round-up from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Families relying on informal agreements over property ownership could face costly consequences if disputes arise, the High Court has warned
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