Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. Following last week’s first anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, we consider how the landscape has changed for Russian litigation in London. First though, a judgment from the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) last week has provided a rare example of […]
Good morning and welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing. You better buckle up because this week we’re talking blockchain, crypto and digital securities. To ease you in, first we’ve got members’ claims against their political parties. Specifically, about how a point in the Equality Act is causing serious concern among lawyers working in […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. In this week’s edition, the Insolvency and Companies Court is back, and ClientEarth fires the starting gun on a developing area of litigation. But first, the SRA tells solicitors: “Hey! Stop it.” A shot across the bow: Aggressive litigation […]
Welcome to the latest edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. This week, we focus on what some might see as a controversial move, Macfarlanes is acting on one of the biggest cases of the year… Macfarlanes gets into bed with VTB Europe, but have the sands shifted?: As many […]
Good morning, welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing. You got through January, congratulations. But are you about to be laid off? In this week’s edition, we look at what’s going on in the world of employment law as recession clouds swirl. Plus, there’s a little Easter Egg from the past 10 years of […]
Welcome back to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. This week’s edition will take you from the Supreme Court’s gift shop right up to Salford. But first, have you heard of the other pay war? Putting the baa in the Bar: In the legal industry, there are shepherds and there are […]
Welcome back to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. This week, it’s all about The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2023, which was unveiled on Monday. October is the cruellest month: Let’s talk headline numbers. This year’s Top 20 features 41 chambers, 45 law firms, 192 barristers (including 85 silks) and […]
Happy New Year and welcome back to The Hearing, the insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. Quinn’s latest London results are out and they have left us wondering what happened to all the double-digit growth? But first, if your New Year’s resolution is to cut out any Royal-related coverage from your life, then we’re […]
With the court term ending next Wednesday, this will be The Lawyer’s last Hearing before Christmas. So as the year draws to a close, this week’s bumper edition has a definite festive feel … More elves needed at this workshop: At least one team at Herbert Smith Freehills will be heading into the break feeling […]
As the temperature plummets, Christmas parties fill your diary and you crawl your way to the end of the year (if your firm lets you out, that is), why not take a break with the latest edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. Cold? Warm yourself by the IP fire: […]
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Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the litigation market. A month ago, we predicted that “law firms would be wise to invest in a good bucket and brush” as Just Stop Oil had been targeting corporations with orange paint. Well, Eversheds, we hope you listened. Earlier this week, a small group from […]