Christian is the Litigation Editor at The Lawyer, where he covers domestic and global disputes, as well as writing The Hearing and Disputes Signal. He also co-hosts and produces The Lawyer Podcast. Prior to joining The Lawyer, he worked at Times Radio. Christian was a commercial and sports disputes solicitor for several years in London and New Zealand before becoming a journalist.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s former global head of tax was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Frankfurt court on Tuesday. Ulf Johannemann, who had been a partner in the magic circle firm’s Frankfurt office, was found to have assisted the German arm of the Canadian Maple Bank in fraudulent trading over […]
The darkest depths of depressing January. Wind. Rain. Snow. Insufferable people telling you how much better they feel for doing “Dry Jan.” Not typically a time associated with the nation’s summer game. But yesterday, the England men’s test cricket team began one of the sporting world’s most gruelling challenges: a five-match series in India. It […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. This week, what you need to know to help your in-house lawyers sleep at night, and Brown Rudnick continues its litigation expansion in London. First though, waiting for a judgment is a bit like waiting for exam results. By […]
“All the meetings with MPs, letters to the Minister, more Ministers than you can shake a stick at, years and years – still no one in power hears a word we say”. These were the words of Alan Bates on 31 December 2018, as he watched the former CEO of the Post Office honoured with […]
The Lawyer Podcast is back for 2024 and we’re kicking things off by delving into the lessons the legal profession can glean from the Post Office scandal. The Post Office scandal has already become one of the biggest stories of the year and few groups are so closely tied to it as the legal profession. […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, Quinn Emanuel returns to growth (in a big way), and a couple of in-house litigators come in from the cold. But first, if you want something done, get Alan Bates to do it… Litigation funders get the […]
It is a year of firsts: the first competition class action to progress to a full trial is due to be heard later this month in Justin Le Patourel v BT; the Holy See (the Catholic Church’s universal government based out of the Vatican) will appear in the English courts for what is believed to […]
Welcome to the first edition of The Hearing for 2024, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. You will hopefully have seen that The Lawyer’s annual Top 20 cases was released this week, with early release given to Litigation Tracker subscribers on Monday. It will be a busy first half of the year […]
Litigators will move centre stage this year with the courts set to hear a series of disputes that will shape the sector for a decade to come. As is revealed in The Lawyer Top 20 cases 2024, many of the novel causes of action that have for years been making litigators hot under the collar […]
Millions of claimants, billions of pounds, and a smorgasbord of international cases: 2024 promises to be another landmark year for the English courts.
Meta class action returns for second bite of the cherry After being told to go away and try again in February last year, class action representative Dr Liza Gormsen is back with her attempt to bring a class action against the Herbert Smith Freehills’ defended Meta. The claim, which is brought by Quinn Emanuel on […]
Mark it in your diaries! Litigation Tracker subscribers will be given advanced access to the 2024 edition of The Lawyer‘s famous Top 20 cases on Monday. Regular subscribers to The Lawyer can access the list from Tuesday. One of The Lawyer‘s most read pieces of the year, the Top 20 cases is compiled annually from the […]