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Several former Axiom Ince employees have won their redundancy payment claims against the collapsed firm in the Employment Tribunal. The decisions were published today (8 July) but were decided on 17 June. Employment Judge KM Ross heard the three cases in Manchester on 30 May. Axiom Ince, now in administration, was ordered to pay £4,826.70 […]
As counsel to the Post Office inquiry, Jason Beer KC is fast gaining celebrity-level status with thousands tuning in to see him grill key witnesses.
This week on Spotlight, we laser in on the mechanics of specialist energy and construction firm Fenwick Elliott. Origin: Robert Fenwick Elliott set up the firm in 1986, coming from legacy Masons. The firm began by doing only domestic contentious construction work but picked up two ICC arbitrations for the Pakistan government in the 1990s, […]
The £70m landmark construction and cladding dispute that featured in The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2024 is closing in on a full settlement, The Lawyer can reveal. It is understood that just two parties in the case, which had an extensive list of defendants, still have active claims against them ahead of October’s 11-week […]
This week on Spotlight, we’re looking at the inner workings and strategy of disputes boutique Pallas Partners, which won Litigation Boutique of the Year at The Lawyer Awards earlier this month. Origin: Pallas was launched in 2022 following a high-profile split-off from Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office when Natasha Harrison, ex-deputy chair of the US […]
London: Lincoln’s Inn firm Hunters Law has rebounded in the 2023/24 financial year, posting a 10.2 per cent revenue rise, from £12.7m to £14m. Beyond the Bubble, in association with LexisNexis: The firm had flatlined for several years, dancing between £12.1m at the lower end to £12.7m at the higher end for the previous five financial years. […]
Harbottle & Lewis has announced its firmwide revenue after switching its financial year-end due to new HMRC tax rules. The firm managed to surpass £50m for the first time over a 12-month period. HMRC’s rules, which took effect from the 2023/24 financial year starting 6 April, seek to simplify tax payments by taxing a business’ […]
Carter-Ruck has been instructed by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage following a Mail on Sunday story published yesterday (23 June). The story was headlined “Zelensky: Farage is infected with ‘virus of Putin’” and quoted the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, condemning him. A source in the Ukrainian presidential office is understood to have told the BBC […]
The Holy See appears in the English courts for the first time The Vatican, Harrods, a mafia-hunting judge, and an alleged multimillion-pound fraud feature in this case. This Commercial Court dispute, starting Wednesday (26 June) for 14 days, sees the Holy See (the Catholic Church’s universal government) square off against management companies Athena Capital, WRM […]
Plans to drill an oil well in Surrey have been halted as the Supreme Court today (20 June) ruled in favour of climate campaigners, a year after the UK’s top court heard the case. Leigh Day secured the win on behalf of former Surrey resident Sarah Finch, who brought the claim in 2020 on behalf […]
Justin Gutmann’s boundary fares class action trial begins The trial in the class action regarding rail fares, brought by class representative Justin Gutmann, kicks off today (17 June) in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) for three weeks with a further week in reserve. Gutmann, represented by Charles Lyndon, alleges that the defendant rail companies abused […]
Specialist class action firm Geradin Partners is filing a £2.5bn lawsuit against Amazon to rival Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s £1bn claim, which was filed last week. Geradin’s opt-out claim will be brought by Professor Andreas Stephan, a competition law scholar and the head of the University of East Anglia Law School, on behalf of UK […]