The Hearing: Barristers must up their form-filling game; and water companies better start flattering the Supreme Court

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 […]

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Our Verdict: “Dieselgate” rumbles on for HSF client Mercedes-Benz

This week saw Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s intervention in probation service procedures ruled unlawful. But in better news for the UK Government, the Foreign Office’s sanction regime against Belarus succeeded in a challenge hoping to overturn it. Herbert Smith Freehills’ client Mercedes Benz was also at the High Court, attempting to determine the scope of […]

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