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NLJ this week: Breaking the mould

12 November 2021
Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Chief Master Shuman made legal history as the first woman appointed Chief Chancery Master

Interviewed by journalist Grania Langdon-Down for this week’s NLJ, Chief Master Shuman talks about her career to date, the conversation about whether to keep the title ‘Master’ or move to something the public would understand means a judge, and the importance of diversity and equality of opportunity (and more importantly how to achieve it).

Quoted by Langdon-Down, Shuman says: ‘Our profile needs to change. But that’s true at all levels in the senior judiciary.” 

Issue: 7956 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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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
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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