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17 November 2017
Issue: 7770 / Categories: Features , Profession
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One of the key categories for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2018 – which is currently open for entries – is  the Legal Personality of the Year award, which will honour the individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere. This person needn’t necessarily have a legal background or qualification, but their actions should have had a significant impact upon the development of the law or its practice over the last 12 months. So who would you want to nominate? This quick guide to past year provides some suggestions for the leading candidates.

November 2016

Brexit has provided the impetus for many of the year’s most memorable legal moments with the High Court delivering its much-publicised decision in the Miller case that the UK government could not initiate the process of withdrawing from the European Union without an Act of Parliament permitting it do so. This decision was subsequently upheld in the Supreme Court in January.

The lead claimant in the case – investment manager Gina Miller

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