Christian is the Litigation Editor at The Lawyer, where he covers domestic and global disputes, as well as writing The Hearing and Disputes Signal. He also co-hosts and produces The Lawyer Podcast. Prior to joining The Lawyer, he worked at Times Radio. Christian was a commercial and sports disputes solicitor for several years in London and New Zealand before becoming a journalist.
Paul Hastings has hired two disputes partners from Latham & Watkins, including its London head of litigation. Oliver Browne, who has been co-chair of Latham’s London litigation practice since 2018, and Stuart Alford KC, former head of banking fraud at the Serious Fraud Office, are set to join Paul Hastings. Browne leaves Latham after 18 […]
Pogust Goodhead has launched an office in Sydney with a warning to Australian corporations that the firm is “ready to hold them to account”. The claimant law firm, which specialises in social and environmental mass claims, has hired Sydney litigation boutique Crichton & Co’s two partners, Amie Crichton and Joshua Carton. It is also looking […]
The £2bn class action against Facebook and Meta has been given the green light to proceed to trial by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The CAT has granted a collection proceeding order (CPO), which means that the opt-out proceedings, brought on behalf of the UK’s 45 million Facebook users, can now continue to a full […]
The new episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now! London has become the biggest referral market in the world – and the Brits are nowhere. The rise of US firms in London’s private equity market – and the challenge that has presented to UK firms – has been well documented, particularly here at The […]
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 […]
At the beginning of the year, The Lawyer released its Top 20 cases of 2024, detailing some of the most influential and intriguing disputes hitting the courts for the first time this year. However, for many parties involved in high-profile cases, there will be a return to the courtroom over the next 12 months. The […]
The annual Six Nations rugby tournament kicks off in Marseille tonight, with France taking on defending champions Ireland. So for this week on Spotlight, we look into Rylands Garth, the boutique sports firm bringing the country’s first mass claims against the governing bodies of rugby union, rugby league and football over brain injuries. The case: […]
The new episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now! Linklaters started off the year with a six-strong team hire from Shearman & Sterling in New York, prompting renewed scrutiny of its efforts to date in the US. But with many believing Linklaters to have fallen behind its magic circle peers – in terms of […]
Blackstone Chambers’ senior clerk Gary Oliver is set to depart at the end of 2024. The veteran clerk, who has been in his current post for 15 years after joining the set in 1990, will continue to act as a consultant in 2025 and 2026. Joint head of chambers Tom Weisselberg KC said: “We have […]
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 […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s former global head of tax was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Frankfurt court on Tuesday. Ulf Johannemann, who had been a partner in the magic circle firm’s Frankfurt office, was found to have assisted the German arm of the Canadian Maple Bank in fraudulent trading over […]