Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market, now brought to you on Wednesdays. Two days in to the Easter Term and there’s a definite green feel around London. Much of that has blown over from Strasbourg, which got the legal world all in a flutter yesterday. A big moment?: The […]
Welcome to your weekly edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. Yesterday marked the last day of the Hilary Court term, so in this final edition of The Hearing before we take next week off, we take a look at the Supreme Court decision that has come as a relief […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, disputes partner promos in the City are wobbly despite a flourishing market, the biggest ever employment tribunal award has been handed down, and the newest legal dynasty has arrived. Trend? What trend?: The last few months have […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we bring you news of what might be the first arbitration centre in Europe to use artificial intelligence (AI). Before that, however, the Post Office scandal has seen an explosion in debate concerning litigation tactics and third-party […]
Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, a litigation funding special. After the UK Government announced (again) its intention to overturn the Supreme Court’s July decision on litigation funding in PACCAR, we look at why funders are not totally thrilled about the announcement. Plus, why are some […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to what’s going on in the UK litigation market. This week, we bring you just the one story. A judgment in the Merricks v Mastercard case was released on Monday, with subsequent separate but similar statements being issued by Freshfields and its client […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. The vista of climate change litigation is back on the horizon after a blunt intervention by a former Supreme Court justice criticised the High Court this week. We also look at how RPC’s media team is building on […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. The new Serious Fraud Office (SFO) chief gave his first speech since taking office, giving the broadsheets a raft of headlines about paying whistle-blowers. Corporate and white collar crime investigations lawyers have been short of work in recent […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing. This week, we tell you why climate lawyers are talking about a case in New Zealand, and we dive into the data of this year’s Top 10 Appeals. But first, perceived threats to London’s place in international litigation have grown in recent years. Now, two leaders are […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. It’s February. Well done, you’ve made it. Welcome to the rest of the year. This week, we look at why employment litigators are annoyed at the Government, but first, you can’t turn on the news at the moment […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. This week, what you need to know to help your in-house lawyers sleep at night, and Brown Rudnick continues its litigation expansion in London. First though, waiting for a judgment is a bit like waiting for exam results. By […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, Quinn Emanuel returns to growth (in a big way), and a couple of in-house litigators come in from the cold. But first, if you want something done, get Alan Bates to do it… Litigation funders get the […]