My legal life: Katy Watts, Liberty
Interview with Monidipa Fouzder.
Lawyer 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.
My legal life: Simon Man, Government Legal Department
Director of Treasury legal adviser.
Lawyer in the news: Richard Langley, Broadfield UK
Firm represented West Dulwich Action Group in a legal challenge against Lambeth Council over the introduction of a low traffic neighbourhood.
My legal life: Paige Gajic, Freeths
Senior associate, Nottingham.
People, 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.
My legal life: Nabil Shah, Leadenhall Law Group
Head of conveyancing (London).
Lawyer 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.
My legal life: Brenda Albert, KONE plc
Legal director (Great Britain, Ireland and Netherlands) at KONE plc, a lift and escalator manufacturer.
Lawyer in the news: Robert Lewis, Mishcon de Reya
Firm’s clients secured a consent order for teaching union NASUWT to reopen general secretary nominations.
My legal life: Mital Raithatha, Coram Children’s Legal Centre
Senior solicitor and head of education law, London.
Lawyer 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.
Lawyer 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.
My legal life: Bill Bennett, Milford & Dormor Solicitors
Consultant and practice manager, Chard, Somerset.
My legal life: Zaib Kosser, rradar
Balancing act: Zaib Kosser is an apprentice solicitor at rradar, Leeds
Lawyer in the news: Ravi Naik, AWO
Ravi Naik, legal director at AWO, London.
My legal life: Winona Chan, Aldermore Bank
Legal counsel, London.
Lawyer 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.
My legal life: Patrick Geddes, Allington Hughes Law
Director and head of the criminal and regulatory department at Allington Hughes Law, Wrexham.
Lawyer in the news: Layla Barke-Jones, Aaron & Partners
Representing Delta Taxis, one of two taxi companies that have set up a ‘fighting fund’ to battle Uber in the Supreme Court in July.
Obituary: Chris Long
Christopher Gordon Long's 'kindly manner, innate courtesy and self-effacing demeanour concealed an astute legal brain'.
My legal life: Mandhir Seera, Hodge Jones & Allen
Trainee, London.
Lawyer in the news: Craig Cooper, Barings Law
Barings Law won a High Court appeal that will allow motor finance claims to proceed through one single claim form.
Lawyer in the news: Ian Weinstein, Brown Rudnick
Firm advised GB News on its successful judicial review of Ofcom’s decision that two shows breached the broadcasting code.
My legal life: Cecilia Goodwin, Goodwin & Rose
Founder and managing director, Manchester and London.
My legal life: Andrew Gill, Forrester Sylvester Mackett
Consultant solicitor at Forrester Sylvester Mackett Solicitors, Malmesbury.
Lawyer in the news: Iain Wilson, Brett Wilson
Represented green energy industrialist Dale Vince, who settled a High Court libel claim with Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Obituary: Nick Hanning
'A determined fighter': a tribute to CILEX lawyer and recorder Nick Hanning.
My legal life: Annabelle Vaughan, Enable Law
Partner in Southampton and head of the firm’s mental capacity team.
Lawyer 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.