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“Law firms are rich compared to the real world”: SSQ founder on why he is switching from the Conservatives to Labour

Even with the UK Government u-turning on its controversial tax cut for the highest earners, supporters and donors to the party have been expressing their reservations – including the chairman of legal recruiter SSQ. According to donor records, SSQ’s chairman and founder Gareth Quarry made three separate donations of £25,000 to the Conservative party between […]

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Kwarteng tax cuts: 4,000 of the UK’s richest partners just got richer

Partners taking home at least £1m a year will receive huge tax cuts under the UK Government’s latest mini-budget – we’ve calculated how much. The Government is planning to abolish the additional 45 per cent tax rate, the top level of income tax which applied only to those earning over £150,000. The change, which will […]

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Truss’s victory shows lawyers are on their way out in politics

Barristers are turning away from Westminster

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Queen’s Speech: Law Society says UK Bill of Rights will “weaken rights for everyone”

The Law Society has criticised the UK Government’s plans for a British Bill of Rights, saying it will undermine the rule of law. The scrapping of the Human Rights Act in favour of a Bill of Rights has been a Conservative manifesto pledge since 2015, but was not followed through on; however, the ambition was […]

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US firms will queue up to hire Geoffrey Cox MP

The furore over Geoffrey Cox MP’s second job at Withers has concentrated political minds almost as much as duckponds and moats.

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MPs can make good money out of law firms

The Paterson furore has thrust MPs’ side jobs into the spotlight, especially that of Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox

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Do lawyers make better Presidents?

Forty-four men have served as President of the United States of America and we are about to find out if there will be a forty-fifth in January. President Trump is famously a businessman; it is easily forgotten that his opponent in this race, Joe Biden, was a lawyer before his long Senate career. He practised […]

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Former government ministers take up new roles at Travers and Withers

Former culture secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-Attorney General Geoffrey Cox are to take up new roles at Travers Smith and Withers respectively. Morgan will take up a consultant role in Travers’ technology group. The move marks a return for the former Travers corporate lawyer, who worked at the City firm between 2002 and 2010 before […]

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Dominic Cummings: which Tory lawyers are backing him?

As of this morning, one Conservative lawyer Member of Parliament – Carlisle MP and former Bendles partner John Stevenson – had called on Dominic Cummings to resign. He was joined this afternoon by former attorney general Jeremy Wright QC, who wrote on his website he had “concluded that it would be better for Mr Cummings […]

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Keir Starmer: 25 years of coverage in The Lawyer

Barrister Keir Starmer has been elected as Labour leader and thus becomes Leader of the Opposition. He has been mentioned many times in the pages of The Lawyer over the years: here are some of the most notable occasions.

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Lord Reed is President of the Supreme Court. What does that mean for justice in the 2020s?

On 11 January 2020, Baron Reed of Allermuir succeeded Baroness Hale of Richmond as the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Under Lady Hale, the Supreme Court seems to have elevated in public profile. What next for the Supreme Court under Lord Reed’s presidency?

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Labour’s lawyers endorse one of their own as leadership race hots up

Sir Keir Starmer QC has won the support of more than half the Labour Party’s lawyers in Parliament as he bids to become the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition.