No5 Chambers’ Satinder Hunjan QC is named Sports Barrister of the Year 2016 by Finance Monthly. Satinder is a highly acknowledged QC who undertakes a diversity of sports cases. His cases in sports law is of very high-value (multi-million pound) which involve high complexity, sensitivity or raise unique and challenging issues. Some of Satinder’s cases […]
Ooredoo Asia’s general counsel Scott Weenink has left the Qatari telecoms giant to take up a general counsel role with Auckland International Airport.
Clifford Chance has hired two asset finance partners from Norton Rose Fulbright in Singapore, including the latter’s co-head of Asia Pacific transport practice Gervais Green.
WCC issued a temporary stop notice under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s171E against C Ltd for change of use from hotel (use-class C1) to hostel (sui generis). C Ltd applied for permission to seek for JR on 5 grounds and obtained permission on two of them. Coulson J in the Birmingham Planning […]
In its recent decision denying certification under the Alberta Class Proceedings Act (“CPA”), the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench (the “Court”) reinvigorated its role as a gatekeeper providing more serious scrutiny of the evidence of loss at this early stage in a potential class proceeding.
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Recent developments, including significantly increased funding under the Specialty Use Vehicle Incentive and Commercial Vehicle Pilots Program announced January 13, 2021, are accelerating the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and their associated infrastructure in British Columbia.
Relatively easy cross-border enforcement of court judgments has been a quiet success of the EU. Now that we have the UK-EU Trade and Co-Operation Agreement we are able to report on how governing law, jurisdiction and enforcement of court judgments works post-Brexit between the UK and EU.
The much anticipated decision of the UK Supreme Court in a test case addressing insurance coverage issues arising in connection COVID-19 business interruption (“BI”) claims was handed down on January 15, 2021 in FCA v. Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd., [2021] UKSC.
No5 Chambers’ Satinder Hunjan QC is named Sports Barrister of the Year 2016 by Finance Monthly. Satinder is a highly acknowledged QC who undertakes a diversity of sports cases. His cases in sports law is of very high-value (multi-million pound) which involve high complexity, sensitivity or raise unique and challenging issues. Some of Satinder’s cases […]
Ooredoo Asia’s general counsel Scott Weenink has left the Qatari telecoms giant to take up a general counsel role with Auckland International Airport.
Clifford Chance has hired two asset finance partners from Norton Rose Fulbright in Singapore, including the latter’s co-head of Asia Pacific transport practice Gervais Green.
WCC issued a temporary stop notice under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s171E against C Ltd for change of use from hotel (use-class C1) to hostel (sui generis). C Ltd applied for permission to seek for JR on 5 grounds and obtained permission on two of them. Coulson J in the Birmingham Planning […]
Having a presence in Africa has not necessarily been of benefit when it comes to acting on the profusion of energy and power deals that have taken place across the continent in the past 10 years
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Firms including Trowers & Hamlins and TLT were among those that made claims through the UK Government’s coronavirus job retention scheme last month, according to new data released by HMRC. The data shows that 17 law firms from the top half of The Lawyer’s latest UK200 report were still making claims for furlough at the […]
Paul Hastings has hired two white-collar and investigations partners from White & Case, as US firms look to expand their City teams. The firm has brought in lawyers Jonathan Pickworth and Joanna Dimmock to the London office. They will join from White & Case, where Pickworth led the white-collar crime practice. Pickworth spent more than […]
Another partner from White & Case’s disputes department is leaving, as Steven Baker exits the firm after three years. Baker joined White & Case in 2018 as part of an expansive lateral hiring strategy in the City. In 2018 Baker left Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft to join White & Case alongside international arbitration partner David […]
Shoosmiths has appointed its head of personal advisory as its first general counsel (GC). Richard Follis takes on the inaugural GC role at the 196-partner firm, where he will enhance focus on managing the increasing compliance burden required to support business activity, as well as take on the quality and risk responsibilities that sit with […]
A team of lawyers and technologists from Ashurst’s NewLaw arm is set to take on teaching duties as part of a module launched by the firm with the University of Stirling in Scotland. The firm is working with the university on a strategic partnership aimed at cultivating talent that will be able to populate the […]
The chief marketing officer and executive board member of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is leaving the firm after 12 years. The departure of Lucy Murphy, chief marketing and business development officer at the magic circle firm, was announced internally in an email, sources told The Lawyer. Murphy had been in her role since 2015. Sitting on […]
