Tag: Legal affairs

Are we about to see more prosecutions for genocide?

This law has undergone a growth spurt in recent history

Oct 6 2017 10:25am

Supreme Court’s ground-breaking employment tribunal fees decision – what now?

Balance of power has shifted to employees, says Mayer Brown’s Caroline Mathews

Oct 3 2017 10:20am

Tax specialist sues Clifford Chance over excessive workload allegations

But magic circle firm disagrees with former employee's version of events

Oct 3 2017 8:56am

‘Fake law’: Professor debunks claims EU legally bound to punish Spain for Catalan violence

Nearly 40,000 retweets for #SpainOutOfEU call, but lawyer says Europe constrained to stay out of these disputes

Oct 2 2017 1:17pm

It’s official: We now have our first ever female Supreme Court president

Lady Hale hopes to see more female justices in the coming years

Oct 2 2017 11:31am

Save the date: 4 October will see first ever Supreme Court case heard by more than one woman

Lady Hale and Lady Black to rule on case about ethnic minority barrister’s discrimination claim

Sep 28 2017 9:07am

Full Leigh Day judgment revealed: Firm’s solicitors not ‘people who put financial advantage above professional duty’

But partner Martyn Day not ‘a credible, honest or convincing witness’, one tribunal member says

Sep 27 2017 10:36am

Judge Rinder ‘litigant’ claims to have faked legal row to secure £5,000 ITV payout

Sam Horner took pal to TV courtroom after discovering show coughs up damages, according to report

Sep 26 2017 11:33am

Lawyers round on license-stripped Uber’s ‘dishonourable history’ as stricken company calls on Hogan Lovells to fight appeal

One says defending Uber is as out of fashion as defending Brexit, others think TfL’s decision is ‘Stalinist’

Sep 25 2017 11:35am

Fake Squire Patton Boggs website given court approval in bizarre decision

A training contract at squirepattonboggs.net may differ somewhat to scheme at squirepattonboggs.com

Sep 25 2017 9:38am

Top QC renews attack on EU judges, days after husband BoJo’s controversial Brexit piece

Marina Wheeler may upset colleagues at One Crown Office Row

Sep 21 2017 1:22pm

Over £1 million awarded to ex-KWM employees

Employment tribunal success

Sep 20 2017 2:32pm

Bringing s75 Consumer Credit Act claims against banks: is it still justifiable?

The credit card world is now a different beast, thanks in part to Twitter

Sep 8 2017 11:53am

Chief Justice: Family courts in ‘crisis’

Retiring Lord Thomas says something must be done on public law cases

Sep 8 2017 10:43am

Theresa May ‘profoundly misleading’ over Brexit legal changes, expert warns

Cambridge law professor Mark Elliott isn’t happy with the PM

Sep 7 2017 11:44am

ECtHR overturns ruling that allowed boss to snoop on employee’s Yahoo account

Original decision caused right-wing press furore -- and inaccurate reporting

Sep 5 2017 11:23am

Subway 11-inch sandwiches settlement only benefited lawyers, judge rules

Case reached court thanks to ‘minor social media sensation’

Sep 1 2017 9:03am

The demise of family law? Courts now ‘largely inaccessible’ and ‘unintelligible’, says court president

As solicitor is lambasted for ‘extremely serious professional errors’ in complex child abuse case

Aug 31 2017 9:29am