Katy is The Lawyer’s Horizon editor. Returning to The Lawyer after a three-year break in 2020, Katy initially covered litigation and the Bar and was the publication’s senior writer between 2014 and 2017.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has appointed former judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC to advise it on bringing cases to court. It is one of a number of appointments at the agency, including the hire of Alun Milford as general counsel. Milford, the former head of the CPS Organised Crime Division, succeeds Vivian Robinson QC, who […]
RPC has revealed a 10 per cent rise in turnover to £68m for the 2011-12 financial year, while net profit has climbed 9.5 per cent to £23m. Managing partner Jonathan Watmough said the growth had been largely organic with investments in lateral hires beginning to pay off. In the three years to the end of […]
Representing a Russian oligarch is a high-pressure gig – but the fees a top QC can charge are even higher
For the past three years the courts have been bristling with recession-related claims. As every year passes, however, the disputes become more complex, the sums get bigger and the legal teams involved swell. Consequently the bar’s rising stars are cutting their teeth on what will be the defining cases of the recession, a situation that […]
After months of speculation about the possibility of shareholder action against a high street bank, Lloyds TSB is now facing two test cases relating to the bank’s ill-fated takeover of HBOS.