The biggest lawyers’ cycle race never to leave the ground is set to take place again on 16–17 October, raising valuable funds for Breast Cancer Care. The popular annual event sees barristers and solicitors racing on static bikes in their offices, following their competitors on a live leader board as they take turns to hop on for 15-minute slots per person. The total distance is 1,000km, the equivalent of London to Paris and back. Tour de Law has raised nearly £500,000, with 116 teams taking part, since its inception in 2012. Register at www.tourdelaw.com.
01 May 2019
Tour de Law underway
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles
Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles
Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards
Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards
Lime Solicitors—four promotions
Lime Solicitors announces four promotions
NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
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