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Members of Civitas' employment team were recently invited to give training to the legal team of the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff.  

Anthony Vines gave an update on the recent developments in Discrimination whereas, Head of the employment team, Jonathan Walters, provided a seminar/workshop on the public sector equality duty.

Chambers is currently reviewing whether to offer any funded pupillages starting this year and/or next year.

Full and up-to-date information will be available as soon as possible which we anticipate will be around 11 May.

Following a national competition, Richard Cole has been appointed to the panel of part-time legally-qualified chairs for the police misconduct panel hearings being heard within the force areas of North Wales, South Wales and Dyfed-Powys.

Richard already has considerable experience sitting as a legal adviser to police misconduct hearings.  The relevant regulations require that from the New Year, such panels comprise a legally-qualified chair rather than a chief police officer.

Richard Cole was recently successful on behalf of the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills before HHJ Keyser QC, sitting as a judge of the High Court.  Mr and Mrs Hawkes (mother and son) ran a plywood importation business, F G Hawkes (Western Limited), which traded as RKL Plywood, in Swansea.  The company was placed into Administration in 2011.  The deficiency was in excess of £26 million.  The Secretary of State sought to disqualify both directors pursuant to the Company Disqualification Act 1986.  Several allegations of unfitness were pro