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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7519

20 June 2012

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Riverview Law has opened its first international office in New York.

Honorary doctorates will be conferred upon Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller...

The Law Society is inviting legal professionals from across England and Wales to enter the Excellence Awards 2012.

Eyebrows raised over MoJ’s statutory presumption plans

JAC study shows marked increase in successful female candidates

Court of Appeal refuses to recognise a "jus cogens" prohibiting "secret detention"

SRA unable to fully enforce referral fee ban due to ABSs

Law Commission launches consultation on elections & referendums

2,000 applications for top level web domains

Argument by Assange's counsel was "without merit"

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Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

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

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

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Good faith test is objective, rules Supreme Court

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

Fisher review urges tough action on digital fraud

Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned

Regulatory overseer must do better

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’

Hillsborough Law imposes duty of candour

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

Judging statistics show mixed bag on diversity progress

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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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7519

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Freeths—David Smith