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Name: Jason Beer KC Organisation: 5 Essex Chambers Role: Head of Chambers Trained at: 5 Essex Chambers Year qualified: 1992 What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? It was the first two weeks of my second-six pupillage. I was sent along to take a note on behalf of the police service at a high-profile inquest for those two […]
Name: Russell Wells Organisation: Clifford Chance Role: Partner Based: London Trained at: Clifford Chance Year qualified: 1990 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? This would have been when I was a trainee in Hong Kong in 1990. We had been contacted by Donald Trump’s lawyers who wanted us to take action to […]
“You might think you’re thinking your own thoughts. You’re not. You’re thinking your culture’s thoughts.” Jiddu Krishnamurti We need to talk about our culture’s thoughts. These have been called different things: the dominant world view; our metanarrative; the hegemonic paradigm. Whatever the terminology, it comes down to the prevailing way of thinking, the story we […]
Name: Marwa Elborai Organisation: Allen & Overy Role: Partner Based: London Trained at: NY law qualified. I summered at and started my career at Shearman & Sterling Year qualified: 2006 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I vividly remember going to Sydney from New York for a documentary diligence trip for a […]
Sarah Walker-Smith proposes a manifesto for business the next government of the United Kingdom should adopt.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are three individual concepts which must be looked at in combination for their true impact in the workplace to emerge. A workplace where there is representation, but opportunities are only given to certain groups and only the perspectives of certain groups are valued or carry authority, may be a diverse workplace, […]
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In the UK, as elsewhere, the environment is in a parlous state. Deeply concerning adverse environmental trends continue. Urgent action is needed to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises. Businesses often want to do the right thing and NGOs are active in the sector. Even so, the environment often lacks a ‘voice’, with few economic […]
The Post Office Horizon scandal has led to a renewed scrutiny of private prosecutions and growing calls for a reform of the system, first put forward by the Justice Committee, and which the Justice Secretary is apparently considering. However, it would be entirely wrong to extrapolate errors that occurred in the Post Office prosecutions to […]
The Post Office Horizon scandal has led to a renewed scrutiny of private prosecutions and growing calls for a reform of the system, first put forward by the Justice Committee, and which the Justice Secretary is apparently considering. However, it would be entirely wrong to extrapolate errors that occurred in the Post Office prosecutions to […]
Given we are in the midst of the festive season, it is worth calling to mind a heart-warming Christmas movie that lawyers can no doubt all relate to. Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy In Bruges is a film in which two hitmen end up stuck in the eponymous Belgian town awaiting orders from their boss. As […]
A scene from the westerns and cartoons of my childhood keeps playing in my mind. A trail of gunpowder leads to kegs of dynamite. The fuse is lit. Will the hero put the fuse out before the whole thing blows sky high? It’s a race against time. What are advised emissions anyway? Advised emissions […]