Profiles – Page 62
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ProfileTeachers win whistleblowing claim
Nick Cambell acted for two unfairly dismissed teachers in a successful whistleblowing claim against former employer.
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ProfileMy legal life: Simon Bradbury
Patent attorney and head of life sciences, Appleyard Lees, Manchester.
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ProfileTracey McDermott
The head of enforcement at the Financial Conduct Authority has a low tolerance threshold for City malefactors.
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ProfileAnti-fascist protesters given demo ban
Acting for some of the estimated 280 anti-fascists arrested during a counter-demonstration against an English Defence League (EDL) march in East London.
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ProfileActed for Gareth Bale in £85m transfer
Grant Gordon acted for former Tottenham Hotspur footballer Gareth Bale on his record £85m transfer deal to Real Madrid on the final day of the transfer window.
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ProfileIan Gatt QC and Dr Mary Bradbury
The pioneers behind Herbert Smith Freehills’ programme to promote mental wellness discuss their work.
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ProfileJudicial review win for king's descendants
Matthew Howarth Acted for the Plantagenet Alliance, which earlier this month won the right to judicially review decisions authorising the exhumation and reinterment of Richard III’s remains in Leicester – rather than in York, where it is claimed the king wanted to be buried.
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ProfileVictory in Lewisham Hospital challenge
Kath Nicholson acted for the London Borough of Lewisham in its successful challenge to health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s decision to downgrade accident and emergency and maternity services at Lewisham Hospital.
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ProfileAlison Saunders
Alison Saunders, the next director of public prosecutions, inherits a Crown Prosecution Service whose lawyers have scant faith in its management.
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ProfileBrazilian crash victim gets £7m damages
Jenny Kennedy won £7m in damages for a newly-wed Brazilian woman who, although wearing a crash helmet, suffered severe brain injuries when knocked off a motorbike in London by an uninsured driver.
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ProfileNicholas Fluck
The new Law Society president talks about his ambitions for the year ahead and why the primacy of English law unites the profession.
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ProfileLucy Scott-Moncrieff
The outgoing president of the Law Society talks about the key challenges of her tenure.
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ProfileMy legal life: Huw Williams
I was fortunate to attend a Welsh grammar school which encouraged pupils to aspire to higher education and the professions. I found the constitutional aspects of studying history particularly interesting so this, coupled with the fact maths wasn’t one of my stronger subjects and that I don’t like the sight ...