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Issue: Vol 161, Issue 7449

20 January 2011
IN THIS ISSUE

Janet Dalton’s recent promotion to director has boosted DWF’s finance and restructuring team.

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has hired Stephen Smith from Mayer Brown as a partner in its competition practice.

Ledingham Chalmers has promoted Rod Hutchison to partner, recognising his specialist capabilities in corporate law.

Bath-based Mogers Solicitors has announced five new appointments.

Chris Bryden & Michael Salter start 2011 by batting off derogatory claims

Steve Tombs & David Whyte highlight the dangers of reducing corporate prosecutions

Charles Pigott reports on why the Woodcock appeal failed to fly

Justin Bates provides some good news for landlords

Has the charter of fundamental rights of the European Union taken the UK into new legal territory ask Charles Brasted & Cordelia Rayner

Scullion provides some lessons in law & life for the buy-to-let market, says Alison Padfield

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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