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Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7445

08 December 2010
IN THIS ISSUE

The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) has just completed the first ever analysis of the appointment of solicitors to judicial roles.

Television courtroom broadcasting remains controversial...

Bribery is rumoured to be rife in sport...

Susan Nash reflects on the significance
of recent human rights judgments

In the first of two articles, Jane Mayfield considers the rationale behind the IoD’s new corporate governance framework

Feast or famine: Another Good Harvest? Siobhan Jones reports

Dominic Regan assesses the Birmingham costs management pilot scheme

Theo Huckle reports on industrial diseases & employer liability

What hope for outcomes focused regulation? Michael Garson reports

Keith Patten applauds the courts’ efforts to uphold Parliament’s intention for s 33

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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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