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24 January 2022
Issue: 7964 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Legal Personality of the Year: LexisNexis Legal Awards 2022

It's time to cast your vote for Legal Personality of the Year!

The award honours an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the legal sphere in the past year. The winner will be announced at the LexisNexis Legal Awards on 30 March.

They include an author, campaigner and legal adviser to the Windrush Reach project; a High Court judge; a solicitor who helped clear names in England’s largest miscarriage of justice; a devoted champion of fair access to the legal profession; an employment lawyer who helped Uber drivers; and a specialist in cases involving violence against women.

Find out who the nominees are, read their brief profiles and cast your vote―by 5pm on 4 March at the latest―here.

Issue: 7964 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Hogan Lovells—Lisa Quelch

Partner hire strengthens global infrastructure and energy financing practice

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Sherrards—Jan Kunstyr

Legal director bolsters international expertise in dispute resolution team

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Muckle LLP—Stacey Brown

Corporate governance and company law specialist joins the team

NEWS

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