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Mr Justice Tugendhat has been appointed to succeed Mr Justice Eady as senior privacy, defamation and clinical negligence judge at the Queen’s Bench Division. Tugendhat J takes over as Judge in Charge of the Queen’s Bench Jury and Non-Jury Lists on 1 October 2010. 

Malcolm Davis-White QC, of 4 Stone Buildings, has been elected Chair of the Chancery Bar Association, taking over from Michael Todd QC of Erskine Chambers. Davis-White said he was looking forward to helping in the delivery of the Rolls Building and bringing together the Chancery Division, Commercial Court and Technology and Construction Court from spring 2011. Timothy Fancourt QC, of Falcon Chambers, was elected vice chair.

Acourt ruling on legal professional privilege during EU cartel investigations has sparked concern across the legal profession. 

It’s time for a radical overhaul of the right of audience, notarial activities and other reserved legal activities, a legal think tank has claimed. 

Lawyers have been mourning the death of Lord Bingham who died on 11 September at the age of 76. 

Barristers headed to Shanghai in September to promote English legal services in China. 

The new Criminal Bar Association (“CBA”) Chair, Christopher Kinch QC has vowed to stand up for publicly funded clients during his tenure. 

“It is unlikely that there will be enough publicly funded criminal case work to support the number of people who wish to earn a living from publicly funded practice at the criminal Bar. 

Large sections of the Bar will fare less well in the future and the number of barristers will decline – that’s the bleak prediction of a new report. 

The Sentencing Council is launching the first survey of its kind to analyse the use of sentencing guidelines in all Crown Courts in England and Wales.