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re: Looking out not in A Norton Rose Group magazine Issue 3 RE: WORK DEMENTIA THE PHOTO ESSAY: A WALL re: IN BEIJING A SHORT STORY BY ALEXANDRA HOWE LIFE A Norton Rose Group magazine magazine Group A Norton Rose Issue 3 Issue RE: opinion of Norton Rose A MAGAZINE OPEN TO NEW Norton Group on any points of law discussed. No individual PERSPECTIVES Rose Group who is a member, partner, Norton Rose Group is shareholder, director, a leading international employee or consultant legal practice. We offer of, in or to any constituent a full business law Issue 3 of Re: was produced London. Caroline Janssens, part of Norton Rose Group service to many of the with the aid of the following London. Daniel Kaufman, (whether or not such world’s pre-eminent individual is described as individuals within Norton Rose Johannesburg. Bobby Kensah, financial institutions a “partner”) accepts or Hong Kong. Lorraine Lee, Hong and corporations from Group: assumes responsibility, offices in Europe, Asia, Kong. 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Australia or Norton Rose expertise across borders, Robbie Pattemore Canada LLP or Norton Rose and enabling us to support South Africa (incorporated our clients anywhere in Designer Yanet Aguiar, Caracas. as Deneys Reitz Inc) or the world. We are strong Michael Dunn Jonathan Ball, London. Claude of one of their respective in financial institutions; affiliates. Picture editor Brunet, Montréal. Jason energy; infrastructure, Bush, London. Kate Crisp, mining and commodities; Ivan Maslarov Re: London. John Holden, Caracas. transport; technology A magazine for Photographers Yerzhan Kumarov, Almaty. and innovation; and pharmaceuticals and life everyone in Norton Hank Leung Sally Macindoe, Melbourne. sciences. Rose Group and for Ivan Maslarov Carole Méhü, Montréal. Cara We have more than 2900 our friends, among Style editor O’Blenis, Ottawa. Mairead lawyers operating from them our clients Madeleine Humphrey O’Brien-Coker, London. offices in Abu Dhabi, and our alumni. Glyn Smith, Johannesburg. Almaty, Amsterdam, Assistant style editor Re: is published Amelia Snare, Dubai. The Athens, Bahrain, Bangkok, Jenny Luan Beijing, Bogotá, Brisbane, twice a year by Night Owls of London. Our Brussels, Calgary, Arts correspondent Norton Rose Group To Do contributors. Our Coda Canberra, Cape Town, Alexandra Howe and is available in contributors. Caracas, Casablanca, print and online at Food and wine correspondent Dubai, Durban, Frankfurt, Featuring Hamburg, Hong Kong, nortonrose.com/ Miles Pittman Adrian Ahern, Johannesburg, London, about us. Production assistant Derek Burney, Sandy Melbourne, Milan, Montréal, Moscow, © Norton Rose LLP 2012 Stephanie Hart Corbett, Dr Uwe Eppler, Munich, Ottawa, Paris, Issue 3 published July Sibusiso Gule, Stephen Perth, Piraeus, Prague, Guest writers 2012. NR12696. Québec, Rome, Shanghai, Richard Calnan Parish, Gemma Patterson, £1.00 Not for sale. 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Publisher and The purpose of Re: is not Johannesburg. John Coleman, translator unknown. to provide information as to developments in the Montréal. Michael Chronis, Contact the Editor law. It does not contain Johannesburg. Kathryn Gawith, [email protected] a full analysis of the law Johannesburg. Tina Glover, nor does it constitute an Photograph: Robert Young Robert Photograph: IT FEELS GOOD TO WIN NORTON ROSE GROUP OFFICE CHOIR OF THE YEAR 2012 CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MOVIE The final of the annual Music in Offices competition was held at St John’s Smith Square in London CONTENTS WORK FEAS TURE 04 Contributors FALLING AWAY Nicola Liu on dementia 05 The Editor 06 Letters to the Editor Obiter dictum 18 I LOVE CHINA 07 Richard Calnan on jurisprudence The photo essay / Beijing 08 Close-up Kazakhstan 28 10 Introducing CATHERINE BRUNET Michael Sandel Alexandra Howe 12 The Q&A Four chairmen 34 LIFE 48 39 To do 54 The poem 40 The sporting life 56 The open door Zulu 44 The back garden 57 The person The kitchen table Derek Burney 50 46 48 The guide 60 Style Abu Dhabi Hong Kong 50 Yesterday 62 Back streets Sandy Corbett London 60 51 Tomorrow 64 Coda 53 One fine day Uwe Eppler’s top five 62 CONTRIBUTORS Patrick Bracher Natalia Tina Glover Simon Pierre Nguyen Susannah Ronn Obiter dictum, p6 Chudakova The sporting life, Lovegrove The sporting life, The back garden, The sporting life, p41 Introducing, p10 p41 p44 p40 Richard Calnan Nick Clayson Alexandra Howe David Lyons Julie Paquette Sean Twomey Richard Calnan on The guide, p48 Catherine Brunet, The sporting life, The sporting life, The sporting life, jurisprudence, p7 p34 p40 p42 p42 The poem, p55 Mazwi Cele Dr Uwe Eppler Daniel Kaufman Ivan Maslarov Miles Pittman Askhat The open door, One fine day, p53 The sporting life, Back streets, p62 The kitchen table, Tynbayev p56 p42 p46 Close-up, p8 Ingeborg Alexander The Q&A The person Charlie Bateson Michael Chronis Kathryn Gawith Virginia Leyva Lindsay Morgan Kim Rew The sporting life The kitchen table, The kitchen table, The back garden, The back The sporting life, p47 p47 p45 garden, p45 p40 Meng Fei The photo essay Frederic Naud The kitchen table 04 :The Editor his is the third issue of Re:, a magazine for everyone in TNorton Rose Group and for our friends, among them our clients and our alumni. In this issue, a former Canadian Ambassador to the United States takes centre stage in The Person, as Ingeborg Alexander finds out how someone can be a diplomat, a Japanese linguist, a chief of staff, a CEO and a senior strategic adviser (that last for Norton Rose Group), all in one lifetime. Mr Derek Burney tells her how it’s done. In addition, we have orchids in Venezuela, sporting prowess in London and summer zing in Hong Kong (where our Style editor has made her fashion selection). In Calgary, the indefatigable Miles Pittman tackles a vegetable terrine. And there’s a first. A short story – by Alexandra Howe. The next issue will be out in early 2013. Uhambe kahle, as they say in Zulu – see you then. The Editor 05 re: Work OBITER DictUM LEttERS TO Latin, deconstructed, in case of need THE EDITOR I liked the article on the next care about or are interested contra proferentem extinction [‘Real science’]. to find out more about. 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