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02 July 2020
Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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NLJ this week: Regulation matters

Professor Mayson’s ‘Reforming Legal Services’ report was ‘too generous about the Byzantine structures’ of professional regulation, John Gould, senior partner, Russell Cooke, writes in this week’s NLJ

Welcoming the ‘valuable’ report, Gould agrees that the answer to consumer protection is ‘to treat the regulation of title and the regulation of activity differently’. Moreover, ‘there is no need for a multiplicity of regulators. The existing holders of titles can, through their representative bodies, determine who may use the title’.

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Issue: 7893 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Regulatory
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Anthony Collins—20 promotions

Anthony Collins—20 promotions

20 promotions mark major people investment at national law firm, Anthony Collins

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley—Elaine Whiteford

Sidley adds competition litigator Elaine Whiteford in London

Charles Russell Speechlys—Claudina D’Costa

Charles Russell Speechlys—Claudina D’Costa

Charles Russell Speechlys welcomes Claudina D’Costa as Director of Client Development Marketing

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