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New Law Society president

21 July 2016
Issue: 7708 / Categories: Legal News
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Robert Bourns, partner at national law firm TLT Solicitors, has become the 172nd president of the Law Society of England and Wales. He is a representative to the Law Society Council from the City of London, and succeeds outgoing president Jonathan Smithers. He plans to focus on promoting the profession to clients at home and abroad, improving equality and diversity, and boosting pride in the legal profession. Joe Egan of Joe Egan Solicitors, is the new vice president and Christina Blacklaws of Cripps is the deputy vice president.

Issue: 7708 / 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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