header-logo header-logo

Submit your entries for the Legal Personality of the Year Award

17 November 2017
Issue: 7770 / Categories: Features , Profession
printer mail-detail
lexisnexis_legal_awards_logo_2

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

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
back-to-top-scroll