Lalit Bhasin, honorary secretary-general of the Indian Bar Association, is to launch a bid next year to become vice-president of the IBA, threatening the bid by IBA secretary general, Dianna Kempe, to become the first woman president of the organisation.
In brief: Conflict of interests?
Withers partner David Mills has rejected as “mischievous” Tory claims that his previous job as non-executive director at Benetton Formula created a potential conflict of interest for his wife, Health Minister Tessa Jowell, in the exemption of Formula One from the ban on tobacco advertising in British sport.