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A blueprint for a simpler, fairer justice system

The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has just released a major new report: Access to Justice for Litigants in Person (or self-represented litigants). The report attacks head-on the prospect of thousands more people having to represent themselves in court once civl legal aid is mostly taken away.
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Quinn Emanuel asks City partner to leave in wake of BoA conflict hitch

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has asked London partner Marc Becker to leave the firm temporarily due to a conflict issue relating to a multibillion-dollar litigation case. Becker, who joined Quinn Emanuel in 2009 from US firm Munger Tolles & Olson, was one of the partners representing AIG in a $10bn (£6.3bn) securities litigation case against Bank of America (BoA).
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The jury has the last word - campaigning against the death penalty in Texas

During an internship with Amicus, a charity that campaigns against the death penalty, 5 St Andrew's Hill's Sara Williams learned about the harsh laws in the state of Texas and the difficulties of defending 'monsters'
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Supreme Court backs judicial discretion on settlements for cohabiting couples

The Supreme Court has backed the court's rights to decide a 'fair' split of assets for separating cohabiting couples in a ruling with widespread implications for family law. The judgment handed down today (9 November) in the long-awaited case Kernott v Jones saw the Supreme Court back an initial county court ruling that a woman who had paid most of the mortgage on a bungalow was entitled to 90% of its value.
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London boutique takes key role as Assange fails in extradition appeal

London boutique Birnberg Peirce & Partners has taken centre stage as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange today (2 October) failed in a High Court appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations. The north London firm instructed Ben Emmerson QC and Mark Summers QC from Matrix Chambers, who were unsuccessful in appealing an earlier ruling that Assange should be extradited.
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Ex-Herbert Smith senior partner Gold brought in on Abramovich lawsuit

Former Herbert Smith senior partner Lord David Gold has been brought in to advise Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich on the multibillion-dollar lawsuit brought against him by Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky. Gold is understood to have been brought onto the case after Abramovich's second attempt to have the proceedings struck out was rejected in the Court of Appeal in February this year.
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International Edition

Quinn Emanuel boosts Euro presence with hire of Novartis GC

Outgoing Novartis general counsel Thomas Werlen is set to join litigation leader Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in the New Year. Werlen is to join the West Coast firm in Europe as a litigation partner in early 2012. He is expected to be based in one of the firm's existing European offices, which include London and Mannheim, with a launch in Moscow imminent.
2 minute read

International Edition

BLP hires silk to launch 'instruction to trial' in-house advocacy service

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is taking a first step towards a full in-house advocacy offering for clients after bringing in South Square's Stuart Isaacs QC to launch the venture. The hire, which will see Isaacs joining BLP's City office next month in the newly-created role of head of advocacy, makes the firm only the third in the UK top 50 to recruit a Queen's Counsel direct from the Bar in order to form an in-house 
advocacy service.
4 minute read

International Edition

'He's a human rights lawyer, you know' - barrister Adam Wagner on what drew him to a career in human rights law

Barrister and leading blogger Adam Wagner explains what drew him to human rights law – apart, of course, from Bridget Jones's Diary – and offers a few tips for aspiring practitioners...
9 minute read

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Skadden leads for Slovak Republic as €1bn health insurance dispute is dismissed

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has secured the dismissal of a €1bn (£871m) claim against the Slovak Republic. The case, which was dismissed last week, was lodged by Dutch health insurance consultancy Hicee in 2008 and had been one of Europe's largest ongoing investment disputes.
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