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Halsbury Legal Awards 2015 are launched

16 April 2015
Issue: 7648 / Categories: Legal News
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Entries are invited for this year’s Halsbury Legal Awards, in partnership with NLJ.

The awards ceremony will take place on 16 September, and will recognise talent and achievement across the whole legal spectrum. Categories include: law firm of the year; chambers of the year; legal journalism; PSL; in-house team of the year; and public sector team. Awards will also be made for innovation, business development, diversity and inclusion, and law in the community.

Last year’s winners included Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice, who was awarded the lifetime achievement award, and the Bingham Centre, which won the rule of law award for its range of projects promoting justice both at home and abroad.

Entries can be made online before 5 June.

 

Issue: 7648 / Categories: Legal News
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NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
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