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CENTRE TENDER

09 August 2007
Issue: 7285 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus
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In brief

A tender process has been launched to run one of the country’s first publicly funded community legal advice centres. The joint funding initiative between the Legal Services Commission (LSC) and Leicester City Council combines a total budget of £2.7m for three years to provide the service. The centre, due to open in April, will bring together civil legal aid funded by the LSC with social welfare service funding. Tenders are invited from organisations that can supply general and specialist legal advice and representation in social welfare and family law. Interested parties have until 22 October 2007 to submit a full tender. 

Issue: 7285 / Categories: Legal News , Legal aid focus
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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
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