Profiles – Page 60
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ProfilePaperwork blunder adjourns hearing twice
John Gaunt acted for a client in two hearings - over alcohol licensing laws - that were adjourned.
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ProfileAdvice 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.
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ProfileDavid takes on RBS Goliath
Dean Nicholls acted for property developer John Morris, in a defended claim against Royal Bank of Scotland.
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ProfileMy legal life: Peter Jones
Senior associate (employment), Thomson Snell & Passmore, Thames Gateway
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ProfileHunger 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.
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ProfileDavid Pester
TLT’s managing partner talks about expanding the national firm in a recession and learning from other sectors.
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ProfileVictory over decision to close disability fund
Clare Collier helped several disabled claimants appeal against earlier High Court ruling.
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ProfilePaul Mahoney
The UK’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights explains how it ‘insures’ nations against ‘backsliding into totalitarian government’.
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ProfilePI 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.
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ProfileElkan Abrahamson
The Gazette’s Legal Personality of the Year reflects on a career spent holding the authorities to account.
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ProfileBig Brother winner settles copyright case
Lucy Middleton acted for Brian Belo, who claimed that ITV and Lime Pictures copied programme idea to create TOWIE.
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ProfileMadoff fraud suspect vindicated
Trevor Asserson successfully defended Sonja Kohn, the main defendant in Madoff Securities International Limited (MSIL) v Raven & Ors.
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ProfileDiana Wallis
The new president of the European Law Institute talks to us about its work and her frustration at trying to win over Eurosceptics.
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ProfileMy Legal Life: Debo Nwauzu
Chair and founder, BLD, and founder and executive head of BLD Foundation.