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After what seems likes an interminable Winter in the City, Spring has brought a raft of legislative and regulatory developments, one of which forms the basis of an excellent article in this edition: The Jackson Reforms on the funding of Civil Litigation which may well have lasting effects on how certain law firms (not necessarily in the City) adapt their business models. We commend Tom Spiller’s incisive analysis in this edition. A development that we have not commented on is the potentially far reaching changes in the regulation of the financial industry in the United Kingdom: following the abolition of the FSA, two new financial services regulators started their operations on 1 April 2013. More on this in successive editions as the changes take hold.


The Editorial Board has always


welcomed articles extolling the virtues of artistic appreciation. Two articles in this edition fit the (play) bill: our newly appointed


opera


correspondent, Lionel Rosenblatt, describes the early lives of three of his favourite musical geniuses, and has been persuaded to follow this article up in the next edition with further erudition. No lesser artistry was displayed by Past Master David Biddle in his heroic representation of


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the Company at the Inter-Livery Ski Championships in Morzine, earlier in the winter. His highly personable account appears in this edition.


And finally, Fox becomes thoughtful, viewing the profession through the motoring goggles of a motoring correspondent.


As always, the Editorial Team welcomes all contributions, particularly those accompanied by interesting illustrations!


John Abramson 4 College Hill, London EC4R 2RB Tel +44 20 7329 2173 Fax +44 20 7329 2190 mail@citysolicitors.org.uk


Elizabeth Thomas 4 College Hill, London EC4R 2RB Tel +44 20 7329 2173 Fax +44 20 7329 2190 mail@citysolicitors.org.uk


Copy deadlines 2013 Summer


17th June 2013


Autumn 23rd September 2013 Winter


25th November 2013


John Abramson, Editor, City of London Law Society – Committee Members


President The Master


Chairman A.F. Douglas


Chief Executive D. Hobart


Secretary N.A. Cameron


Administrator Mrs E.J. Thomas, B.A.


Policy & Committees Co-ordinator R.S. Leeder


Committee CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT † P. Barnes † R. Bourns † S.W. Davis † C. Digby-Bell N. Emmerson M. Hanson N.M.L. Hughes V.T. Keaveny Ms V. Knapp C. Martin † Miss C. McConnell C. Medvei A.G. Murray-Jones D. H. Tyler


City of London Solicitors’ Company – Court of Assistants


Master M.C. Roberts, B.A


Senior Warden D.A.McIntosh, QC (Hon)


Junior Warden V.T. Keaveny


Stewards Dame Janet Gaymer, QC (Hon), D.B.E. N.M.L. Hughes


Full Assistants Past Master W.J.L. Knight Past Master Ms A.L. Marks Past Master Alderman Sir David Lewis Past Master Alderman Sir David Wootton Past Master J.R.C. White, T.D. Alderman Mrs C.F. Woolf, C.B.E. J.M. Abramson R.J.L Jones Alderman D. Graves J P Wotton


† Ex-officio as members of the Council of The Law Society


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Chairman of CLLS A.F. Douglas


Additional Assistants C. Medvei


J.T. Young


Ex-Officio Assistants Past Masters P.J. Purton, O.B.E., L.M.R.T.P.I. D.F. Gray, M.A. E.P.T. Roney, C.B.E.,M.A. Sir Max Williams M.H. Sheldon, C.B.E.,M.A. K.S.G. Hinde, O.B.E., T.D.,M.A. J.A.E. Young, LL.B. D.L. Biddle, M.A. J.A. Rowson Sir Christopher Walford, M.A., D.C.L. His Hon. Harvey Crush S.N. Beare, M.A., LL.B. W.L. King, M.A. R.D. Fox, M.A. M.R. Mathews, M.A. Alderman Sir Robert Finch M.J. Cassidy, C.B.E., B.A.,M.B.A., Dep. J.E. Hume B.J. Greenwood, LL.B. A.J.C. Collett, LL.B.


N.C.C. Bamping, LL.B. Miss K.D. Richardson, M.A.


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