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50% of senior leaders in the financial and professional services sector should come from a non-professional background by 2030, the City of London’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce has urged in its final report.

The Law Society of England and Wales has welcomed the final report from the City of London’s Socio-Economic Diversity Taskforce which outlines its five-point pathway of tangible steps for organisations in the financial and professional services sector to achieve socio-economic diversity at senior leadership level.

The Law Society is marking Disability History Month (16 November to 16 December) by sharing stories from disabled legal professionals.

Carrie Laws explains why D/deaf awareness training should be considered a critical issue for the legal sector

Women barristers earn one third less than their male colleagues, Bar Council analysis has found.

Recruitment and retention, alongside monitoring the global political and economic situation, are the main threats facing the legal sector, according to a report launched this week at the International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Miami.

It will take more than 120 years for women, Black and Asian people to be proportionately represented within the judiciary if the current rate of progress continues.

Simon Blandy discusses the role of the regulator in increasing diversity & inclusion in the legal profession

Lawyers will focus on the theme, ‘Time for change: action not words’, as they mark this year’s Black History Month (BHM).

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has discussed how it prepared Croydon Crown Court in July 2022 to support the first deaf juror, Karen, to serve in a trial aided by British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters.

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Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

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Legal notice: Notice under the Trustee Act 1925

NOTICE UNDER THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

HERBERT SMITH STAFF PENSION SCHEME (THE “SCHEME”)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND BENEFICIARIES UNDER SECTION 27 OF THE TRUSTEE ACT 1925

Emergency lawyers on call as international regulatory actions soar

Law firm HFW is offering clients lawyers on call for dawn raids, sanctions issues and other regulatory emergencies

NLJ this week: Employment law’s fine margins

From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act

NLJ this week: Promises broken on non-molestation orders?

Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection

NLJ this week: Assisted dying under the legal microscope

Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961

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Diversity

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown