19/08/2020
Edward Lamb, Tom Restall and Tom Rainsbury have all been appointed to the London B Panel. This appointment is for 5 years, commences on 1 September 2020 and followed an open competition.
The Attorney General’s panels of counsel consist of junior counsel who undertake civil and EU work for all government departments. Counsel on the panels continue to be available to be instructed in their existing practice areas and to act against the government as well as for the government.
The competition to be selected for a panel is described as ‘fierce’ and only those junior counsel of the ‘highest quality’ are selected. Chambers congratulates them all on their achievement.
In this week’s edition Linda Nelson examines how and when to serve surveillance evidence, and how and when to respond to it; and John Schmitt asks whether it’s necessary to have a claim form re-sealed if it’s been amended prior to service, and urges caution…
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
This week Ben Rodgers relays two tales from the coalface, both relating to applications to resile from admissions. Readers will be interested to know that in both cases the court applied the balance of prejudice test with the result that the defendants’ applications were refused….
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