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06 October 2023
Issue: 8043 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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NLJ this week: Fast track to the boardroom via the CGIUKI

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Interested in governance? Want to add another string to your bow? Then the CGIUKI (Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland) Fast Track for the Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme may be for you! Read all about it in this week’s NLJ

The CGIUKI is a professional body with a qualifying programme enabling Chartered status. Holding this qualification ‘demonstrates that you have the knowledge, skills and experience to take on a job with significant and wide-ranging responsibilities in large, medium, and small organisations. This includes a diverse range of roles such as, being within a secretariat or governance team, being part of a professional services team, having sole governance, or a company secretarial role’.

In short, it could be a fast track to the boardroom.

The programme is available to legal professionals with at least five years’ experience. Chartered status can be achieved in as little as nine to 12 months though the CGIUKI.

To find out more information or to see how you can apply visit Get ahead fast (cgi.org.uk) or contact us at fast-track@cgi.org.uk

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Jurit LLP—Caroline Williams

Private wealth and tax team welcomes cross-border specialist as consultant

Freeths—Michelle Kirkland Elias

Freeths—Michelle Kirkland Elias

International hospitality and leisure specialist joins corporate team as partner

Flint Bishop—Deborah Niven

Flint Bishop—Deborah Niven

Firm appoints head of intellectual property to drive northern growth

NEWS
Talk of a reserved ‘Welsh seat’ on the Supreme Court is misplaced. In NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC explains that the Constitutional Reform Act treats ‘England and Wales’ as one jurisdiction, with no statutory Welsh slot
The government’s plan to curb jury trials has sparked ‘jury furore’. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke, partner at Hill Dickinson, says the rationale is ‘grossly inadequate’
A year after the $1.5bn Bybit heist, crypto fraud is booming—but so is recovery. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Holloway, founder and CEO of M2 Recovery, warns that scams hit at least $14bn in 2025, fuelled by ‘pig butchering’ cons and AI deepfakes
After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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