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01 January 2009
Issue: 7350+7351 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Knights in the City

Honours

Two City lawyers were awarded knighthoods in the New Year’s honours list.
Nigel Knowles, managing partner of DLA Piper, and David Lewis, formerly senior partner of Norton Rose, were honoured as was Judge Goolam Meeran, a former president of the England & Wales Employment Tribunals.
Peter Wayte, senior partner of DLA Piper International LLP, says Nigel Knowles’s knighthood “recognises his truly exceptional service to the legal profession, both in terms of his leadership within DLA Piper and the role he has played in driving the responsible business agenda.”

Issue: 7350+7351 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal—Jack Kelly

Gateley Legal expands Midlands residential development team

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

NEWS
A series of recent decisions has clarified important principles across property law, from perpetuities to lease renewals and public rights over land
Employers cannot rely on wellbeing services alone to defend workplace stress claims after a High Court decision awarding almost £1m to an overworked employee
Andy Burnham's brand of 'Manchesterism' could offer fresh thinking on legal aid and access to justice if it reaches Westminster, according to Roger Smith, NLJ columnist and former director of JUSTICE
The constitutional fallout from a change of prime minister, rather than the politics, is under scrutiny as questions arise over the limits of executive authority in a leadership transition
The legal profession is undergoing a fundamental shift from selling services to creating technology-enabled products, according to Professor Luke Mason, Head of School of Law at Regent's University London
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