Welcome to the first edition of The Hearing for 2024, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. You will hopefully have seen that The Lawyer’s annual Top 20 cases was released this week, with early release given to Litigation Tracker subscribers on Monday. It will be a busy first half of the year […]
Welcome to your last edition of The Hearing for 2023. As we wind down to Christmas, we hope you have enjoyed The Lawyer’s coverage of the UK’s litigation market this year. We will be back when the court term starts in the second week of January, but for now, please enjoy three tales to tell at […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. It’s December, and as the rest of the UK eases into the festive season, the courts are just heating up. In this week’s edition, a trio of whys: why Linklaters thinks the Government can’t shake judicial reviews, why arbitrators […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK Litigation market. This week, the FCA’s new sustainability rules will bring more work for disputes lawyers, why BCLP should love its litigators more, and a lovely case of mistaken identity. But first, you may have seen yesterday’s Horizon on litigation growth […]
Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we take a look at why a strike out hearing on Monday was a big moment for UK corporates, and how Sir Robert Buckland is trying to change the UK’s class action landscape. But first, part one of The Lawyer’s […]
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. It’s only Thursday, but it has already been a memorable week for the UK’s legal profession as, once again, the courts clash with the UK Government. Normal service will resume in The Hearing shortly as we look […]
Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, DWF’s internal chambers is on the move, and Freshfields London managing partner crosses the finish line in first – literally. But first, it’s a tough time to be a personal injury (PI) claimant lawyer. Or is it? All aboard the […]
Welcome to your last edition of The Hearing for October. A judgment concerning an $11bn arbitral award from Commercial Court Judge Sir Robin Knowles CBE has left many London disputes lawyers reeling this week. That amount of money would leave most people reeling, to be fair, but it’s the implications for the legal profession that […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we take a dip into the UK Litigation 50, which is due out in a few days, we ask why other firms aren’t paying out special bonuses like Quinn, and why Shoosmiths might be a good bet […]
Hello and welcome to the last edition of The Hearing before the summer break. As is always the way in the last full week of the courts’ Trinity Term, we’ve seen several significant judgments published this week as judges rush to hand in their homework before the holidays. On Monday the High Court threw out […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This is the penultimate edition of The Hearing before it takes a recess alongside the courts this summer. But before then, we look at what AI may mean for cross-examination and ask if Essex Court is entering the […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, banking litigations is back on the agenda, or rather, it isn’t, after the Supreme Court threw out a case seeking to extend the Quincecare duty. Plus, the decision to postpone the trial between the CMA, Microsoft […]