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Legal Personality: call for nominations

17 November 2017
Issue: 7770 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Nominations are invited for the Legal Personality of the Year award, an important category for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2018. This award honours an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere in the past 12 months. Current suggestions are Gina Miller, lead claimant in the Article 50 Brexit case, Victoria Vasey, director of North Kensington Law Centre, Adam Crème, Unison’s head of legal services, and Lady Brenda Hale, President of the Supreme Court. Other suggestions are welcome. Please submit entries at www.LexisNexis.co.uk/legalawards2018 by 1 December.

Issue: 7770 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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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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