Employment law takes centre stage this week, as Mishcon de Reya acts for Pimlico Plumbers in its latest court case, while BLM defends the Royal Opera House against a former musician. Firstly, our attention turns to Croydon. TMP Solicitors’ Jacqueline McGuigan bested Mishcon de Reya last year in the Supreme Court, securing a key decision […]
A heavily public law-focused week sees the UK Government fighting off three massive claims related to transport, pharmaceuticals and human rights. The battle over how Heathrow Airport gained permission to build a new runway has made national news, particularly after it edged out its South London counterpart Gatwick Airport to the the chagrin of campaigners […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang was the big winner in the courts last week, fending off a professional negligence claim against it within days of the case coming to court. As for another one of last week’s entries, the Eurotunnel dispute settled on the evening before it was scheduled for its four-day hearing. Freshfields Bruckhaus […]
Was it the half-term effect? Last week saw a series of substantial judgments handed down. Clifford Chance, Brick Court, Wilberforce, RPC and Watson Farley & Williams all secured favourable decisions, while it was more a week to forget for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Covington & Burling. This week […]
Availability of financing, the rush to digitalisation and growth of renewables all ensure that the region will keep on growing in 2020
Employment law takes centre stage this week, as Mishcon de Reya acts for Pimlico Plumbers in its latest court case, while BLM defends the Royal Opera House against a former musician. Firstly, our attention turns to Croydon. TMP Solicitors’ Jacqueline McGuigan bested Mishcon de Reya last year in the Supreme Court, securing a key decision […]
A heavily public law-focused week sees the UK Government fighting off three massive claims related to transport, pharmaceuticals and human rights. The battle over how Heathrow Airport gained permission to build a new runway has made national news, particularly after it edged out its South London counterpart Gatwick Airport to the the chagrin of campaigners […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang was the big winner in the courts last week, fending off a professional negligence claim against it within days of the case coming to court. As for another one of last week’s entries, the Eurotunnel dispute settled on the evening before it was scheduled for its four-day hearing. Freshfields Bruckhaus […]
Was it the half-term effect? Last week saw a series of substantial judgments handed down. Clifford Chance, Brick Court, Wilberforce, RPC and Watson Farley & Williams all secured favourable decisions, while it was more a week to forget for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Covington & Burling. This week […]
Cambridge EU law professor Catherine Barnard and Oxford EU law professor Stephen Weatherill set out the feasibility of a significant delay in the Brexit process.
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RPC is named counsel on each one of the 10 privacy-related claims brought against the Mirror since 2018.
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The High Court has rejected PCP Capital’s claim against Barclays in a highly-anticipated judgment from Mr Justice Waksman, which ruled that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s client is not entitled to the damages it sought. In a mammoth ruling handed down today, Waksman J concluded that PCP’s claim should be dismissed despite finding that Barclays […]
PwC legal head Ed Stacey is to stand down from his role, handing over the reins to partner Teresa Owusu-Adjei. As UK head of legal, Owusu-Adjei will lead 400 lawyers and other legal professionals. She has been with the accountancy firm since 1995, and a financial services partner since 2008 Stacey was appointed head of […]
Latham & Watkins has added another partner to its expanding restructuring and finance groups in London, with Bruce Bell joining from Linklaters. Bell was promoted to partner at Linklaters in 2005, having moved across as an associate from Wilde Sapte in 2000. In Latham’s restructuring group, he will be reunited with fellow Linklaters alumni such […]
Shoosmiths‘ chief operating officer and board member is to leave the business after little more than a year in the newly-created position. Ben Bennett was hired in late 2019 as the firm’s first COO. Reporting to chief executive officer Simon Boss, he came in to support strategic growth and drive operational improvements. As part of […]
Taylor Wessing has brought in a real estate team from Greenberg Traurig, just months after the arrival of an 11-strong private wealth group from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. In March, the firm will beef up the structured component of its real estate sector group with the hire of a four-lawyer team led by partner Michael […]
Osborne Clarke is predicting a gradual shift to new charging systems as part of a five-year client strategy disclosed to The Lawyer by its management. The firm’s leadership has conducted a review exercise internally dubbed ‘3D’. It is anchored on the three main elements at the heart of the firm’s future direction: legal skills, sectors […]
