QCs in 2010

News in brief

The QC Selection Panel is inviting applications for the next round of silk appointments. The application form is available on the panel’s website at www.qcapplications.org. uk, and the deadline is 23 April 2009. The results are due in the early part of 2010.

Issue: 7362 / Categories: Legal News

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

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NLJ Career Profile: Ling Ong, London Market FOIL

Ling Ong, partner at Weightmans and president of London Market FOIL, discusses her biggest inspirations, the challenges of AI and the importance of tackling unconscious bias

DWF—Imogen Francis

Director and head of IP team joins in Birmingham

Penningtons Manches Cooper—five promotions

Firm boosts partnership and costs practice with five senior promotions

NEWS

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Mazur no more as clarity returns

The controversial Mazur ruling, which caused widespread uncertainty about the role of non-solicitors in litigation work, has been overturned on appeal

Could mega Meta loss affect media ban?

Two landmark social media cases in the US could influence social media regulation in the UK, lawyers predict

Specialist courts not jury cuts

Barristers have urged the government to set up Nightingale-style specialist courts, with jury trials, to prioritise rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse trials

Catastrophic payment scheme 'falling short'

Victims of violent crimes who suffer life-changing injuries receive less than half the financial support today than those in the 1990s, according to a senior personal injury lawyer

Call for return of family legal aid as cases rise

Rising numbers of cases, an increase in litigants in person and an overall lack of investment is piling pressure on the family court, the Law Society has warned

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QCs in 2010

MOVERS & SHAKERS

NLJ Career Profile: Ling Ong, London Market FOIL

DWF—Imogen Francis

Penningtons Manches Cooper—five promotions