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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7435

29 September 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

Spencer Keen provides an overview of the most significant provisions of the Equality Act 2010

HBJ Gateley Wareing welcomes Alan Shanks’s return to the UK

Hart Brown has appointed James Lamont as its latest partner.

Mogers Solicitors LLP is extending its business to provide legal services for expat clients.

Wedlake Bell LLP has recruited Edward Craft as partner, applying expertise in both the corporate and low carbon arenas.

The UK Register of Mediators (UKRM) welcomes mediator and chartered arbitrator, Michael Cover

The Indie had a go. Now it is the time of The Guardian. The temptation to knock The Times off its perch as the “must have” newspaper for any self-respecting lawyer is overwhelming.

Three major fault lines exposed in current system

The lord chief justice is to take over leadership of the tribunal’s judiciary.

Leases have moved on. It’s the market that needs to catch up, says Keeley Ellaway

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan—Andrew Savage

Firm expands London disputes practice with senior partner hire

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Druces—Lisa Cardy

Senior associate promotion strengthens real estate offering

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Charles Russell Speechlys—Robert Lundie Smith

Leading patent litigator joins intellectual property team

NEWS
The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
Writing in NLJ this week, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers argues that the ‘failure to prevent’ model of corporate criminal responsibility—covering bribery, tax evasion, and fraud—should be embraced, not resisted
Professor Graham Zellick KC argues in NLJ this week that, despite Buckingham Palace’s statement stripping Andrew Mountbatten Windsor of his styles, titles and honours, he remains legally a duke
Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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