Newcastle-based Watson Burton is giving pro bono advice to Wallsend Boys Club, the amateur football club that produced the likes of Alan Shearer, Peter Beardsley and Michael Carrick. The firm is advising the club, which organises amateur football matches and gives coaching to both girls and boys, on its relocation to a 20-acre site next […]
Taylor Wessing made legal history by obtaining the first costs-capping order against an opposing firm’s fees in a libel dispute, winning a four-year battle for Associated Newspapers. As a result of the order Charles Russell‘s fees were slashed from £1m to £445,000 plus VAT. Charles Russell represented Alberta Matadeen in her claim against Associated Newspapers […]
Morrison & Foerster‘s (MoFo) London office has bagged a lead role advising the UK Government on a £297m outsourcing project. The firm advised UKvisas, a directorate run jointly by the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on its contract with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and VFS Global to outsource visa application processing. Alistair […]
Simmons & Simmons has landed an instruction as lead adviser on a groundbreaking project to create a pan-Ireland electricity market. Simmons beat off several rivals to become the go-to firm for Northern Ireland’s Department for Enterprise, Trade and Industry (DETI) in its efforts to create a single wholesale electricity market between Northern Ireland and the […]
Addleshaw Goddard and Leeds-based Walker Morris have completed the largest waste disposal PFI deal in the UK to date. Lancashire County Council and Blackpool Council have struck a deal with Manchester-based Global Renewables and national contractor Bovis Lend Lease. The £2bn, 25-year deal will enable 150,000 tonnes of resources to be recycled each year. Global […]
Charity specialist Stone King has opened an office in Cambridge to focus on providing advice to Cambridge colleges, schools and East Anglia charities. Senior Partner and head of the firm’s Charity & Education Team, Michael King said: “We recognise that the Cambridge Colleges will eventually have to register as charities with the Charity Commission, and […]
The High Court last week ordered BAE Systems to produce a sworn affidavit divulging how the aerospace giant obtained a confidential and legally privileged document belonging to pressure group Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). As first reported on www.thelawyer.com (25 January), the documents were leaked to BAE ahead of a court battle that pitched […]
White & Case beats Dewey to major Greek telco acquisition” />White & Case has pipped US rival Dewey Ballantine to land a lead role on Naguib Sawiris’s latest Mediterranean acquisition in its first corporate instruction from the Egyptian telecoms magnate. White & Case advised Sawiris’s Weather Investments on its €3.4bn (£2.28bn) purchase of Greece’s third-largest […]
Cross-border insurance transactions are likely to throw up tax problems. Greg Sinfield and John Young look at how Zurich in particular is addressing the issue
Insurers and reinsurers across the EU await the forthcoming Solvency II regime with bated breath. Martin Mankabady reports
A forthcoming review of the whole personal injury claims system can help eradicate false claims and make the whole process more consensual. Lea Brocklebank reports
DLA Piper and Kent Law School’s pro bono clinic are going head-to-head in a legal battle between supermarket giant Tesco and a group of employees. Kent Law Clinic is representing 27 Tesco employees who it claims were left out of a deal on redundancy pay struck between the supermarket and Tesco staff belonging to the […]