PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partnership

On the south coast, Thomas Eggar has made a senior hire with James Quarmby, the head of tax at DMH in Brighton, joining the Horsham office.

Sarah Ambrose has been promoted to partner and head of property at Guildford firm Cheyney Goulding.

In the City, construction lawyer Huw Baker is to join Linklaters from the Manchester office of Masons.

Liability unit lawyers Kerry Woodland and Andrew Caplan have been made up at Kennedys, now a 70-partner firm.

Jane Winfield (commercial property) and Anne Elliss (residential property) have been promoted to the partnership at Brentwood, Essex firm Wortley Byers.

It now has ten partners.

Leaving the City is commercial litigator James Pilgrim-Morris, who has joined Field Seymour Parkes in Reading from Denton Wilde Sapte.

Commercial and agricultural lawyer Gavin McKinnon Clark has moved to Oxford-based Pellmans as a partner from Grimsby firm Grange Wintringham, where he was an assistant.

Everatt & Co in Evesham, near Worcester, has hired Birmingham-based Weightman Vizards partner Stephen Garrett for its personal injury department.

Hull firm Williamsons has promoted Carolyn Shelton and Robin Smith to partners in its defence advocacy department.

In Liverpool, private client lawyer Richard Bate has left Cuff Roberts and joined Brabners Chaffe Street as a partner.

In Edinburgh, Jeremy Fraser - dual-qualified in Scotland and in England and Wales - has joined Edinburgh firm Morton Fraser as a partner in its banking and finance department from Lloyds TSB, where he was assistant head of legal services in the group legal team.

In Brussels, Clifford Chance has recruited the founder partner of US firm Morrison & Foerster's local office, Thomas Vinje, to work as a partner in its competition and regulation group.

PRIVATE PRACTICE

Associates / assistants

An exodus from London is the main feature this week.

Litigation assistants Rebecca Preece and Nick Scott, formerly with City firms Richards Butler and SJ Berwin respectively, have joined the Milton Keynes office of Howes Percival.

Commercial property assistant Lynda Walshe has left Thomas Cooper & Stibbard for Brentwood-based Wortley Byers.

Anne Balcomb, an assistant specialising in immigration law, has swapped Harbottle & Lewis for the Plymouth office of Foot Anstey Sargent.

Susie Wynne has joined Cheltenham-based Willans as a commercial property associate from Witney-based Brookstreet Des Roches, where she was an assistant.

Another assistant trading Oxfordshire for Cheltenham is claimant personal injury specialist Gill Heighway, who joins BPE from Oxford firm Henmans.

Graham Shaw has joined Birmingham-based Anthony Collins as an assistant in its projects group.

He arrives from Beachcroft Wansbroughs in Leeds.

Sue Smith has left Nottingham City Council to become an associate and head of civil litigation and personal injury at Grantham and Newark-based Bird & Co.

In Manchester, associate Sharon McGladdery has joined the property department of Heatons from Eversheds.

Vicki Haesler, a newly qualified lawyer from Brabners Chaffe Street, joins Berg & Co's litigation department as an assistant.

BAR AND BENCH

In London, planning advocates Neil King QC and Rupert Warren join Landmark Chambers from 2 Mitre Court Buildings.

Four employment law barristers have joined Outer Temple Chambers: Keith Bryant, Natasha Joffe, and Lydia Seymour join from Devereux Chambers, and senior junior James Counsell joins from 2 King's Bench Walk.

In Leeds, four barristers have joined Park Court Chambers: civil lawyer Paul Kirtley and crime advocate Gillian Batts have moved from 37 Park Square and 39 Park Square respectively; family and mental health practitioner Melissa Agar has left Hornby & Levy solicitors in London; and crime advocate Stephen Uttley has arrived from Leeds' Crown Prosecution Service.

Barrister Simon Jack has been appointed a circuit judge on the north-eastern circuit.

Solicitor Peter Nicholls - formerly a consultant with Norwich-based Leathes Prior - has been appointed a bankruptcy registrar in the High Court.

IN-HOUSE

Kyla Mullins, the London-based director of legal and business affairs at Granada, has been promoted to legal director-designate of the new ITV.

Ed Gretton, formerly a corporate finance assistant at City giant Clifford Chance, has joined the office equipment supplier Danka Business Systems as its first European general counsel, with a brief to start an in-house legal department across 17 European jurisdictions.

LAW SCHOOLS

At Nottingham Law School, Professor Peter Kunzlik has been appointed dean of the faculty, and Professor Phil Knott has been appointed managing director.

The moves follow the promotion of the former dean, Professor Peter Jones, to vice-chancellor of the parent Nottingham Trent University.

Paul Aber - director of legal practice at the Inns of Court School of Law in London - has been appointed director of the York branch of the College of Law.