header-logo header-logo

Andrea Coomber - Justice

31 October 2012
Issue: 7536 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
printer mail-detail

Andrea Coomber has been appointed the new director of Justice

Andrea is currently legal director of the international human rights organisation, Interights. She will take up her post in February 2013.

Andrea replaces Roger Smith OBE, who has been director since 2001. She will be Justice’s fifth director in its 55-year history.

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, chair of Justice’s council, says: “Andrea’s experience and dynamism will be a huge asset to Justice and its work on the rule of law, human rights and access to justice. I am confident she will be an exceptional director in the busy time ahead. I very much look forward to working with her.”

Issue: 7536 / Categories: Movers & Shakers
printer mail-details

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Ceri Morgan, knowledge counsel at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, analyses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd, which reshapes the law of fiduciary relationships and common law bribery
The boundaries of media access in family law are scrutinised by Nicholas Dobson in NLJ this week
Reflecting on personal experience, Professor Graham Zellick KC, Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader of the Middle Temple, questions the unchecked power of parliamentary privilege
Geoff Dover, managing director at Heirloom Fair Legal, sets out a blueprint for ethical litigation funding in the wake of high-profile law firm collapses
James Grice, head of innovation and AI at Lawfront, explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector
back-to-top-scroll