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NLJ this week: Fast track to the boardroom via the CGIUKI

06 October 2023
Issue: 8043 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Interested in governance? Want to add another string to your bow? Then the CGIUKI (Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland) Fast Track for the Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme may be for you! Read all about it in this week’s NLJ

The CGIUKI is a professional body with a qualifying programme enabling Chartered status. Holding this qualification ‘demonstrates that you have the knowledge, skills and experience to take on a job with significant and wide-ranging responsibilities in large, medium, and small organisations. This includes a diverse range of roles such as, being within a secretariat or governance team, being part of a professional services team, having sole governance, or a company secretarial role’.

In short, it could be a fast track to the boardroom.

The programme is available to legal professionals with at least five years’ experience. Chartered status can be achieved in as little as nine to 12 months though the CGIUKI.

To find out more information or to see how you can apply visit Get ahead fast (cgi.org.uk) or contact us at fast-track@cgi.org.uk

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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