Private practice


Partners



Andrew Dunn: joins Cobbetts as a partner Kicking off in the City, Paul Dunbar joins Finers Stephens Innocent from Rooks Rider to head the property dispute resolution group.


Three partner promotions at City firm RadcliffesLeBrasseur: Peter Coats (corporate), Ian Sadler (healthcare) and Gordon Hall (construction).



Five partner promotions at London’s Davenport Lyons, bringing the total number of partners at the firm to 35: Julie Killip (insolvency); Alun Thomas (licensing); Martin Haines, Sam Tatton-Brown and Fraser Bloom (all media).



Still in the capital, criminal specialists Daniel Burbidge and Jenny Wiltshire are promoted to partner at human rights firm Hickman & Rose.



In Birmingham, Carol Betts leaves Hammonds for the corporate services practice at Gateley Wareing.



Up in Manchester, pensions litigation specialist Tim Stone joins Hill Dickinson from Eversheds.



Ex-DLA commercial property specialist Andrew Dunn joins Cobbetts in Manchester as a partner, following a career break.



Carol Betts: appointed by Gateley Wareing Associates/ assistants

Assistant solicitor Shah Qureshi leaves Hodge Jones & Allen to join City firm Webster Dixon as head of employment.


Patrick Brandt joins the financial services group at Baker & McKenzie in the City as an associate, from Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson.



Assistant solicitor Jonathon Errington joins Pinsents’ London-based competition team from an in-house role at Xerox Europe, where he was competition counsel.



Five associates are promoted in the healthcare practice at RadcliffesLeBrasseur: Alexandra Johnstone, Yvonne Screene and Paul Thomson (London) and Clare Chapman and Ian Cooper (Leeds).



To Kent, where Maidstone firm Whitehead Monckton hires two assistant solicitors: commercial litigator Christopher Longden from Stallard in London, and trusts and estates specialist Karen Openshaw from Rix & Kay in Heathfield.



In Reading, employment assistant solicitor Rachel Tozer joins Field Seymour Parkes from City firm Lovells.



Moving west, Kate Fleming joins the banking and financial services litigation team at Bristol firm TLT from the enforcement division of the Financial Services Authority.



Shah Qureshi: head of employment at Websters Assistant solicitor Kevin George joins the conveyancing practice at Coodes in Liskeard from local firm Stephens & Scown.


Property litigation associate Neil Jacobi leaves Douglas-Jones Mercer for John Collins & Partners in Swansea.



Newly qualified commercial property assistant solicitor Sarah McGivern leaves Ruben Lewis O’Brien in Cwmbran for Darwin Gray in Cardiff.



In the midlands, Peter Duff joins Shoosmiths’ Nottingham office to head the employment team from City firm Baker & MacKenzie where he was a senior associate.



Kate Fleming: joins TLT's financial services team


Assistant solicitor Krista Shipp joins the commercial contracts team at Mills & Reeve in Norwich from Eversheds.

Up in Stockport, employment specialist Meredith Hurst joins Gorvins as an associate, from Beach-croft Wansbroughs in Manchester.


Still in the north-west, Julie Twist is promoted to associate in the personal injury department at Scott Rees’ Skelmersdale office.


A double hire for the intellectual property practice at Lupton Fawcett in Leeds: associate Leigh Martin arrives from DLA and assistant solicitor Fiona Pick joins from electronics company Filtronic, where she was in-house counsel.


Bench



Barrister Daniel Pearce- Higgins QC has been appointed a circuit judge on the midland circuit.


Catriona Jarvis, Peter King and Alistair McGeachy have been appointed legally qualified members (vice presidents) of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.




Correction



Holman Fenwick & Willan is a City headquartered international firm, not a US firm as stated in [2004] Gazette
, 29 July, 40.

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