THE senior clinical and professional negligence advocate Grahame Aldous, of 9 Gough Square, is among a batch of 28 new faces joining the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution’s Solve panel of mediators.
Also joining are employment specialist Clive Sheldon, QC, of 11 King’s Bench Walk, and Sir David Edward KCMG, QC, a former judge in the European Court of Justice who is now a deputy judge in the Court of Session in Scotland hearing civil appeals.
Fourteen of the new mediators are practising lawyers and seven are women. CEDR puts the expansion down to an increase in mediation in the UK, which is estimated to have goneup by 35 per cent since 2003.
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DR JOHN McMULLEN has taken up the post of head of employment law at Watson Burton, the Newcastle and Leeds firm. The appointment ends his long association with Pinsent Masons, the national firm, which he joined in 1991 and where he was formerly head of employment.
McMullen is an expert in European employment law and has advised on an array of prominent transfer of undertakings cases. He is also part-time Professor of Law at the University of Leeds.
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THE media barrister Lorna Skinner is moving to Matrix Chambers, becoming its fiftieth tenant. She is making the move from One Brick Court, the specialist defamation set, where she has been based since her call to the Bar in 1997.
Co-author of A Practical Guide to Libel and Slander, Skinner’s recent clients include the BBC and Associated Newspapers, as well as a number of claimants. At Matrix she will continue to work in the fields of defamation and privacy but aims to broaden her practice.
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VICTORIA RUSSELL has joined the London-based firm Charles Russell as a partner. The former head of technology, media and telecoms at Hextalls took up her post on January 3. Russell has built her practice advising network operators, telecoms service providers and regulators on regulatory and commercial issues. The telecoms team works alongside its technology, intellectual property and media and entertainment groups.
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