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NLJ this week: Talent champions

30 April 2021
Issue: 7930 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Equality
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It is time to prioritise skills over background when it comes to the next generation of legal professionals, writes CILEX chair Chris Bones in this week’s NLJ

For too long now, the legal profession has placed outsized importance on a limited number of routes to qualification, thereby excluding thousands of potentially outstanding candidates. In order to ‘unleash all the talents at our disposal’, writes Bones, we must ‘sweep away barriers to opportunity in both educational access and routes to employment’.

An alternative option is on the way in the form of the new CILEX Professional Qualification (CPQ)— with no pre-requisites for certain qualifications or experience, it is open to anyone with the right talent and attitude.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Private client division announces five new partners

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Banking and finance team welcomes partner in London

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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