Profiles – Page 23
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News focus: Airbus case raises questions over DPAs
Despite a record £833m penalty for Airbus, anti-corruption campaigners remain sceptical about a DPA regime plagued by ‘discrepancies’ that appears unable to hold individuals to account.
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First past the post
In-house Solicitor of the Year Chris Fox runs a team of deal-enablers who ‘don’t sit in an ivory tower’, hears Jonathan Rayner.
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Lawyer in the news: Jim Varley, Devonshires
Who? Jim Varley, partner, Devonshires, London. Why is he in the news? Represented liquidator Stephen Hunt in a landmark case concerning which directors’ duties survive the insolvency of a company. In Systems Building Services Group Limited [2020] EWHC 54 (Ch), the court ruled that a director cannot expect to be ...
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Lawyer in the news: Raj Chada, Hodge Jones & Allen
Head of the criminal defence, financial crime and regulatory department, London.
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News and the noose
‘Idealist’ Tamsin Allen acquired a taste for fighting miscarriages of justice by taking up one of the biggest causes célèbre of the post-war era. Now she has the pedlars of ‘fake news and lies’ in her sights, reports Jonathan Rayner.