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Submit your entries for the Legal Personality of the Year Award

17 November 2017
Issue: 7770 / Categories: Features , Profession
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One of the key categories for the LexisNexis Legal Awards 2018 – which is currently open for entries – is  the Legal Personality of the Year award, which will honour the individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere. This person needn’t necessarily have a legal background or qualification, but their actions should have had a significant impact upon the development of the law or its practice over the last 12 months. So who would you want to nominate? This quick guide to past year provides some suggestions for the leading candidates.

November 2016

Brexit has provided the impetus for many of the year’s most memorable legal moments with the High Court delivering its much-publicised decision in the Miller case that the UK government could not initiate the process of withdrawing from the European Union without an Act of Parliament permitting it do so. This decision was subsequently upheld in the Supreme Court in January.

The lead claimant in the case – investment manager Gina Miller

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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
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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