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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7498

24 January 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

The winner of this year’s Andrew Lees Prize Article Competition will win a one-month paid summer internship at LexisNexis...

The members of 20 Essex have announced that Andrew Fulton will be joining chambers in March.

David Fryer has joined Epiq Systems, Inc as general manager of UK operations. David will oversee day-to-day operations in the UK.

Listed company buys PI firm in bid to create ABS

David Hertzell & Colin Moore assess the legal challenges facing the providers of PIP breast implants

LSC wins legal action on solicitor overpayments

Encouraging greater judicial diversity is no easy task, says Adrian Jack

Despite bonuses lawyers feel their glass is half empty

Bar survey shows rise in sole practitioners

Bleak insurance prospects for properties at risk of flooding

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Pillsbury—Lord Garnier KC

Appointment of former Solicitor General bolsters corporate investigations and white collar practice

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Hall & Wilcox—Nigel Clark

Firm strengthens international strategy with hire of global relations consultant

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Slater Heelis—Sylviane Kokouendo & Shazia Ashraf

Partner and associate join employment practice

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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