Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we put our ear to the Supreme Court (SC). The country’s top judges are used to handling complex disputes, but some are fed up of colleagues keen on making waves. Plus, watch out, as we hear litigation […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week we look at how the floodgates may be about to open to mass claims from landowners against water companies, and how the working hours of financial crime and corporate compliance lawyers are in the hands of those […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, in the interests of balance, we look at why 7KBW is having a cracking month, and why the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is not. Need an insurance barrister? 7KBW is fully booked: The mountain of aviation suits […]
In this week’s edition, we look at Kingsley Napley’s daring move to enter the London IP disputes market. Plus, we discuss how your opposing counsel’s emotional opening salvo in their skeleton argument isn’t really written for you. But first, let’s look at the latest litigation updates on the London Metal Exchange’s (LME) dramatic suspension of […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. Following last week’s first anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, we consider how the landscape has changed for Russian litigation in London. First though, a judgment from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) last week has provided a rare example of […]
Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing. You better buckle up because this week we’re talking blockchain, crypto and digital securities. To ease you in, first we’ve got members’ claims against their political parties. Specifically, about how a point in the Equality Act is causing serious concern among lawyers working in […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. In this week’s edition, the Insolvency and Companies Court is back, and ClientEarth fires the starting gun on a developing area of litigation. But first, the SRA tells solicitors: “Hey! Stop it.” A shot across the bow: Aggressive litigation […]
Welcome to the latest edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. This week, we focus on what some might see as a controversial move, Macfarlanes is acting on one of the biggest cases of the year… Macfarlanes gets into bed with VTB Europe, but have the sands shifted?: As many […]
Good morning, welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing. You got through January, congratulations. But are you about to be laid off? In this week’s edition, we look at what’s going on in the world of employment law as recession clouds swirl. Plus, there’s a little Easter Egg from the past 10 years of […]
Welcome back to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. This week’s edition will take you from the Supreme Court’s gift shop right up to Salford. But first, have you heard of the other pay war? Putting the baa in the Bar: In the legal industry, there are shepherds and there are […]
Welcome back to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. This week, it’s all about The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2023, which was unveiled on Monday. October is the cruellest month: Let’s talk headline numbers. This year’s Top 20 features 41 chambers, 45 law firms, 192 barristers (including 85 silks) and […]
Happy New Year and welcome back to The Hearing, the insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. Quinn’s latest London results are out and they have left us wondering what happened to all the double-digit growth? But first, if your New Year’s resolution is to cut out any Royal-related coverage from your life, then we’re […]