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Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7520

28 June 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

Resource partner Paul Airley has joined Fladgate LLP from McCarthy Tétrault

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, is to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Leeds University

Hill Dickinson has promoted two partners to salaried members and four partners to legal directors

Nottingham-based law firm Rothera Dowson have appointed Paul Brill to the employment law department

Park Court Chambers and New Court Chambers, specialist criminal, commercial and civil sets, merged on 18 June

Dominic Regan on Fairclough Homes, dishonest claims & the Supreme Court

Dr Jayne Allam & Sam Westmacott explore why the Ireland report failed to deliver

Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions

Crime doesn’t pay out compensation, notes Anna Hughes

Malcolm Dowden considers the liability of a parent company

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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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