Over a year into its Scottish merger, Addleshaw Goddard has lost a ten-strong private client team to independent firm Morton Fraser. The head of Addleshaw’s private client team in Edinburgh, Gregor Mitchell, will move across to Morton Fraser, alongside legal director Euan Fleming and a team of eight consultants, solicitors, paralegals and executive assistants. The defection comes […]
One of Schillings’ most senior privacy partners has left the firm to launch a new boutique offering with his former colleague. Chris Scott will form the new venture Himsworth Scott with a former senior associate of Schillings Matt Himsworth, who left the firm in 2012. The pair will be joined by a third lawyer at […]
DWF has lost its family law capability after head of family David Pickering and his entire team decamp to Manchester-based firm JMW, The Lawyer has learned.
Six clients of leading law firm Collyer Bristow, including actor David Tennant and Olympic Athlete Colin Jackson, received an apology in the High Court today from News Group Newspapers after their phones were hacked by News of the World. Also represented by Collyer Bristow in this case are Fran Cutler, Jess Morris, Tanya Frane and […]
Charles Russell Speechlys has been replaced as one of Cancer Research’s core legal advisers by national firm Michelmores.
Debra Powell QC and James Berry represented the National Police Chiefs’ Council at the first hearings in the Internet and Child Sexual Abuse strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. The Inquiry, chaired by Professor Alexis Jay, is comprised of thirteen investigative strands. The Internet and Child Sexual Abuse strand is inquiring into institutional responses to […]
This month, a line-up of tech specialists will gather for The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Summit 2018, a one-day event focused on the future of law firms in a tech-driven world. Among the panels hosted during the day, a discussion called “Skills of the future” will explore the abilities lawyers will need to thrive in a […]
When Wayne Rooney landed at Manchester United in 2004, the story went that it wasn’t because Sir Alex Ferguson needed another striker, but because Newcastle had put in a bid for the young Evertonian and he couldn’t countenance seeing such an exciting talent anywhere else. That brings us to this week’s news that former SFO […]
Predicting fraud, case outcome and budgets are some of the benefits from using analytics tools. But how do you implement them?
Law firms give their advice on implementing the tools, and what happens when predictions go wrong
The ENRC’s victory in the Court of Appeal was one of the most closely watched decisions in the legal community this decade.
Opportunities around digitisation characterise the German legal market.
In fact, taking a stake in a legal tech company was one of the most eye-catching moves made by The Lawyer’s German Firm of the Year.
Using Global 200 data, The Lawyer reveals which law firms have failed to keep pace with the global market, and what this group’s performance since 2008 can tell us about the future for the world’s top law firms
In 2018, a new trend has emerged among law firms for offering graduate schemes with a tech flavour. Here are the ones that have come to light so far.
When Latham & Watkins turned its attention to infrastructure private equity, the firm had two choices about how to fill the gap. The first was targeting Clifford Chance, the second was recruiting out of Allen & Overy. It decided to do both. Earlier this month, Latham pulled out all the stops by announcing it was […]
From shoring up the South African banking system to helping home buyers in Cambridgeshire, it’s been a busy year in finance.
By Dominic Cole The Telegraph reports this morning that many executors are not aware that they are liable to pay taxes on income produced by estate assets during the administration period. Executors are personally liable to pay the tax and therefore, if they distribute the whole estate thinking there is nothing else to pay, they may […]
By Dominic Cole Vince Cable has suggested the creation of a ‘citizen fund’ to help the wider population benefit from investment returns. Of particular interest is the suggestion to abolish inheritance tax and instead tax gifts during people’s lifetimes. Lifetime giving can still be a very efficient form of estate planning in the right circumstances but […]
By Anthony Searle The High Court has held in Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v Brown [2018] EWHC 2046 (Admin) that qualified one-way costs shifting (‘QOCS’) protection does not apply automatically in proceedings where a claimant is advancing both a claim for damages for personal injury and a claim other than a claim for damages […]
The Trusts (Amendment No 7) (Jersey) Law 2018, which contains a number of amendments to the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984 (the Trusts Law), came into force on 8 June. Key provisions of Amendment No.7 include: Clarifying amendments to Article 9A of the Trusts Law (reservation or grant of powers by a settlor) A re-write of […]
Guernsey has a thriving insurance linked securities (ILS) sector and is home to an abundance of ILS structures, including: hundreds of special purpose insurers (SPIs) writing billions of dollars of life and general risks for ILS funds and investors ILS funds, both private (often for a single, sophisticated investor) and blind pool managing billions of […]
By Magnus Boyd It is just over three months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. In that time there has been a substantial rise in the notification of breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office as well as reporting to individuals whose data was lost or affected by the breach. The increased […]
By Marcus Leese A variety of factors is fuelling a sustained boom in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity around the world. Figures quoted by respected researchers Mergermarket say that the second quarter of 2018 saw global M&A values reach their highest point since the 2008 financial crisis with more than a trillion US dollars spent – […]
By Marcus Leese, Wisdom Hon Shares in a British Virgin islands (BVI) company, held personally or via a nominee arrangement, will be effectively frozen on the passing away of the individual shareholders. A BVI grant is required to transfer the deceased shareholder’s shares. The BVI has entirely revoked its old probate rules, which had been used […]
By Cheri Minors, Keith Robinson The Supreme Court of Bermuda has confirmed once again its willingness to order Confidentiality Orders in cases that involve the administration of private trusts. In the 2018 case of In the Matter of the E Trust (the “E Trust”) Acting Justice, Shade Subair Williams (subsequently appointed as a Puisne Judge) reaffirmed previous rulings that private trust proceedings […]
By Laura Shirreffs An unmarried couple, both with housing qualifications, can buy property in joint names and have the security of jointly owning their home. For unmarried couples, where only one has housing qualifications, the position is more difficult. For freehold property, only the qualified partner can own, with the unqualified partner not having the comfort […]
By Anthony Partridge, Fraser Allister This briefing note provides an overview of the process and legal considerations for a person who is not domiciled in the Cayman Islands to write a will dealing with his or her shareholding in a Cayman Islands company. It is not legal advice and it should not be relied upon as such. […]
By Emily Haithwaite, Niamh Lalor, Tara Kapur Limited partnerships in Jersey are governed by the Limited Partnerships (Jersey) Law 1994, as amended (the Law). The main feature of limited partnerships, as the name suggests, is the limited liability afforded to the limited partners. In addition, the Law is very flexible, such that the partners in a Jersey limited […]
