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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

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Thackray Williams—Lucy Zhu

Dual-qualified partner joins as head of commercial property department

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Morgan Lewis—David A. McManus

Firm announces appointment of next chair

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Burges Salmon—Rebecca Wilsker

Director joins corporate team from the US

NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection? 
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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