Crown Commercial Service appoints over 40 firms to new panel
CCS has completed its new £320m wider public sector legal services panel, covering a broad range of legal services
Five firms dropped from £100m NHS roster
The NHS has finalised its 28-strong shared business services panel with firms including Addleshaws and Hogan Lovells winning places.
Bevan Brittan revenue reaches £44m in sixth consecutive year of growth
Bevan Brittan has posted its sixth year of consecutive growth, posting a 12 per cent increase in turnover from £39.2m to £44m. Net profit stood at £9.6m last year, up from £7.8m the previous financial year. Average profit per equity partner increased from £313,000 to £443,000 – a phenomenal rise of 43 per cent. The firm […]
Ashurst grows Australia with double hire as Norton Rose exits mount
Ashurst has grown its government and public sector capability with two partner hires from Norton Rose Fulbright and HWL Ebsworth.
Norton Rose dispute resolution partner Melanie McKean and HWL Ebsworth TMT partner Angela Summersby will join the firm’s Canberra office.
Freeman, Rod – Cooley
Product liability lawyer Rod Freeman’s move from Hogan Lovells to Cooley was more than just your average lateral hire. By joining one of the world’s top technology-focused firms, Freeman was offering a glimpse into the future. How so? Partly because while Cooley is a relatively new player in Europe, as a tech firm through and […]
What the top 50 law firms are doing with legal tech
Cyber security is now a board-level item of technology spend, but increasingly firms are investing in tools that price more accurately, offer greater flexibility for clients and also improve recovery rates.
Getting slicker: in-housers share what self-service technology means to them
How does one leverage technology to deal with the business-as-usual work, in order to focus on higher level, strategic work?
The offshore litigation market: the key things you need to know for 2018
From Guernsey to Gibraltar via the Cayman Islands, litigation is in plentiful supply, with trusts and insolvency cases spearheading growth, our new data reveals
EY and Riverview Law: how it can work despite the doubters
EY’s acquisition of Riverview has the potential to create a true disruptor, but will the initiative be handcuffed by audit?
Access to justice: how tech is putting justice within reach
As austerity cuts and reforms continue to take chunks out of legal funding, ever-advancing technology provides the opportunity to plug the shortfalls
What3words’ Rachael Carolan: “I’m a lawyer and a coder”
What3words’ general counsel and coding geek Rachael Carolan on working for one of the newest and most promising tech start-ups on the market
The coronation of Levine is assured, but DLA Piper can’t ignore Europe for much longer
Partners at DLA Piper have three days left to put their names forward to run against Simon Levine in the managing partner elections.
The strategies driving the world’s leading litigation firms
$30bn in total disputes income among the Global Litigation Top 50 shows this is still a rich seam to mine. Here, we dig into the strategies driving the leading firms
New Law momentum: As Gordon Dadds circles Ince, there are plenty more deals to come
The news that Ince & Co is in merger talks has been trailed for months, but most of the City chatter linked it to other EC3 firms.
Now Gordon Dadds is in the frame, the firm’s New Law mindset could be exactly what Ince needs.
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers succeeds in judicial review
James Berry appeared in judicial review challenge to the decision of a police misconduct panel not to dismiss a police officer who the panel found had attempted to kiss a vulnerable member of the public while he was on duty. James argued that the panel had acted unlawfully by failing to follow the correct approach to determining disciplinary action […]
Schoenherr establishes a new Healthcare & Life Sciences group
Schoenherr has established a new Healthcare & Life Sciences group to provide more comprehensive advice to clients active in the healthcare sector. Florian Kusznier, corporate/m&a partner and Andreas Natterer, dispute resolution partner and President of the European Food Law Association, will jointly lead the team, building on many years of expertise in this field. The […]
Ogier advises lenders on the development of the Finlaggan gas field
Ogier has advised on the £170 million development of the Finlaggan gas field in the North Sea by Zennor Pathway Limited. An Ogier team led by partner Simon Dinning and senior associate Oliver Richardson has advised on the Jersey law aspects of the financing for the development. The Finlaggan gas field was discovered in 2005 […]
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers advises Appropriate Authority in the misconduct proceedings case
Stephen Morley appeared on behalf of the Appropriate Authority in the police misconduct hearing concerning a Metropolitan Police officer who was accused of sexually assaulting a female on a train in 2016. The officer had previously been acquitted at the Crown Court in 2017, but after a 3 day hearing the misconduct Panel concluded that […]
Ogier advises Merian on £100m launch and listing
By Craig Cordle, Michelle Watson Bunn An Ogier team has advised Merian Chrysalis Investment Company Limited, a newly incorporated Guernsey registered investment scheme, on its initial public offering and admission to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. A team led by Group Partner Craig Cordle and senior associate Michelle Watson Bunn […]
TLT advises EHRC on inquiry into housing for disabled people
The inquiry, which began in 2016, looked at whether accessible and adaptable housing is fulfilling disabled people’s rights to live independently. Debbie Reynolds, associate in the planning and environment team and Kane Kirkbride, partner in the housing team, advised the Commission on four main areas, including: Its response to the government consultation on a standardised […]
No5 Barristers’ Chambers helps in prosecution in a murder trial
Michael Duck QC, of No5 Barristers’ Chambers, is leading the prosecution in a murder trial following the death of a schoolboy. Ozell Pemberton, a former pupil at Greenwood Academy in Castle Vale, was fatally knifed outside McDonald’s in Sutton Coldfield in May this year following an earlier incident between two groups of youths. Two people […]
No5 Barristers’ Chambers secure £5m damages for claimant in clinical negligence claim
SC (by her Mother and Litigation Friend Mrs PC) v Mid Essex Hospitals NHS Trust Chris Bright QC and Stephen Goodfellow yesterday secured the approval of the High Court in London for a lump sum settlement of £5m in a fiercely disputed clinical negligence claim on behalf a child claimant with a severe acquired brain […]
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers advises in Manchester City Council v P and R case
Conrad Hallin is currently representing Manchester City Council in the widely reported case of Manchester City Council v P and R in which a young autistic woman with an obsessional interest in Asian men has been found by the Court to have capacity to marry and engage in sexual relations, but to lack capacity to decide whether […]
No5 Barristers’ Chambers helps client wrongly denied prioritisation for hearing to claim damages
In a reserved judgment handed down on 26 October 2018 the Divisional Court (Lord Justice Holroyde and Mr Justice Green, as he then was) allowed the claim for judicial review brought in the case of R (Bate) v Parole Board of England & Wales [2018] EWHC 2820 (Admin). The Court held that the claimant was unlawfully denied […]
No5 Barristers’ Chambers represents Ministry of Justice against unfair dismissal claim by former prison officer
Jack Feeny, of No5 Barristers’ Chambers, has successfully represented the Ministry of Justice against an unfair dismissal claim brought by a former prison officer. Diane Ward, 55, claimed she had been unfairly dismissed from HMP Nottingham because she had made 100 security information reports relating to large quantities of drugs being smuggled into the prison […]
Serjeants’ Inn Chambers acts for Coroner in hearing of inquest by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court have this week heard the appeal in the matter of Hugh Jordan, considering whether a claim under HRA 1998 alleging a breach of the requirement for a prompt investigation of a death contrary to Art 2 ECHR can be brought before the inquest has finally concluded. Ian Skelt of Serjeants’ Inn is […]