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ProfileMy legal life: Zoe Mortimer and Alexandra Geelan, Hemisphere Consultants
Commercial law specialists providing legal services to female- and minority-led businesses.
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ProfileMy legal life: Camella Cephas, WSP Solicitors
Board member, head of children and care law and soon to be managing director at WSP Solicitors, Gloucestershire
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Hannah Brown, Richard Buxton Solicitors
Firm represented Open Spaces Society, permitted to intervene at the Supreme Court in support of Dartmoor National Park Authority’s argument that wild camping is part of a broad right of open-air recreation granted to the public.
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Sarah Myatt, Switalskis
Firm represented Peter Sullivan, whose conviction for murder was quashed by the Court of Appeal this month. Sullivan spent 38 years in prison.
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ProfilePeople, clients, money – in that order: an interview with Linda Woolley
Kingsley Napley’s Linda Woolley, who is retiring after 21 years as managing partner, tells Eduardo Reyes that kindness and commerciality go hand in hand.
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Nusrat Zar, Herbert Smith Freehills
Firm represented intervener Public Law Project at the Court of Appeal, which found the government had wrongly used ‘Henry VIII’ powers to pass protest legislation.
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ProfileMy legal life: Brenda Albert, KONE plc
Legal director (Great Britain, Ireland and Netherlands) at KONE plc, a lift and escalator manufacturer.
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ProfileMy legal life: Mital Raithatha, Coram Children’s Legal Centre
Senior solicitor and head of education law, London.
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Rosie Walker, Gilson Gray
Represented intervener Sex Matters in a landmark case at the Supreme Court that clarified the definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010.
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Emily Soothill, Deighton Pierce Glynn
Represents people detained at Manston short-term holding facility in a case against the government for allegedly unlawful detention and other breaches of their rights.
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ProfileMy legal life: Zaib Kosser, rradar
Balancing act: Zaib Kosser is an apprentice solicitor at rradar, Leeds
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Katy Colton, Mishcon de Reya
The firm has been instructed to pursue legal action to secure a pardon for Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK.
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ProfileMy legal life: Cecilia Goodwin, Goodwin & Rose
Founder and managing director, Manchester and London.
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ProfileMy legal life: Annabelle Vaughan, Enable Law
Partner in Southampton and head of the firm’s mental capacity team.
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ProfileLawyer in the news: Sabrina Simpson, Coram Children’s Legal Centre
Represented a mother who challenged the Legal Aid Agency’s refusal to grant legal aid for her excluded son’s Independent Review Panel hearing.
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ProfileSpot the difference
Alison Eddy headed Irwin Mitchell’s London office for 12 years. She talks to Eduardo Reyes about a career that has never lost its focus on equality and diversity.
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ProfileMy legal life: Chantal Davies, professor of law, University of Chester
Director of the Forum for Research into Equality and Diversity at the University of Chester law school and co-vice chair of the Law Society Women Solicitors Network Committee.