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Roundtable: solicitor-advocates
The Gazette’s latest roundtable looks at changing attitudes towards solicitor-advocates.
My legal life: James Maxey
Managing partner at Express Solicitors, Manchester
My legal life: Peter Jones
Senior associate (employment), Thomson Snell & Passmore, Thames Gateway
My legal life: Carol-Ann Burton
Consultant, Holman Fenwick Willan, London
My legal life: David Malone
Barrister; Red Lion Chambers, London
Advice for ‘numbnuts’ squatting demonstrators
Paul Ridge advised demonstrators opposed to the criminalisation of squatting who had set up camp outside the office of a Conservative MP.
David takes on RBS Goliath
Dean Nicholls acted for property developer John Morris, in a defended claim against Royal Bank of Scotland
Hunger striker loses detention bid
Sue Willman represented a Nigerian man on hunger strike who failed in his High Court bid to be released from an immigration detention.
Victory over decision to close disability fund
Clare Collier helped several disabled claimants appeal against earlier High Court ruling.
PI claim struck out as abuse of process
Jennifer Harris acted for Homes for Haringey in the first successful strike-out of a grossly exaggerated claim as an abuse of process.
