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Home Government drops plans to protect civil claimants from paying costs by Suzi Ring 9 Feb 2012 at 2:09pm
The Government has dropped plans to extend incoming access to justice provisions beyond personal injury (PI) as the debate over the implementation of the Jackson reforms to civil litigation costs continues. The Government earlier this month confirmed that it had rejected proposals to usher in so-called 'qualified one-way costs-shifting' (QOCS) beyond PI claims during a Parliamentary debate on the new civil justice bill. Hogan Lovells, A&O among best paid from ?27.6m Irish banking crisis work by Sofia Lind 9 Feb 2012 at 1:51pm
Hogan Lovells and Allen & Overy (A&O) have emerged as two of the biggest beneficiaries of legal spend by Ireland's National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) since it was set up to address the crisis in the country's banking system in December 2009. The two firms have collected more than ?5m in fees between them since the start of 2010 - with Hogan Lovells earning ?2.9m (£2.5m) and A&O ?2.5m (£2.1m) - around a fifth of the body's ?27.6m (£23.1m) total legal spend over the period. Gateley LLPs shed light on Halliwells acquisition as top pay figure falls 50% by Rose Orlik 9 Feb 2012 at 1:07pm
Gateley's highest-paid partner took home £379,728 in 2010-11, less than half the £802,177 pay packet of the previous year's top earner, according to the firm's English limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts. A spokesperson said the substantial drop was due to two "significant deals" led by one partner that completed before the end of 2009-10, which the firm described as "an exceptional and stand-out year for business". DLA Piper posts 15% global revenue hike to reach new $2bn-plus high by Chris Johnson 9 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
DLA Piper saw global revenues soar past the $2bn mark in 2011 to set a new firm record, reports The Am Law Daily. The firm's total revenue jumped 14.6% to an all-time high of roughly $2.25bn (£1.42bn) during the year, while average profits per partner rose almost 8% to $1.225m (£775,000) - just $70,000 (£44,000) below the peak profit figure the firm achieved in 2008. A&O and Freshfields called up for ?1.3bn Orange Austria buyout by Ben Lewis 9 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) are advising on the ?1.3bn (£1.1bn) acquisition of the Orange mobile phone network in Austria by Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, reports The Asian Lawyer. Freshfields Vienna partners Bertram Burtscher and Konrad Groeller are advising Hutchison, with antitrust counsel from Axel Reidlinger in Vienna and Thomas Wessely in Brussels. The 'Twitter joke trial' appeal: a review of the High Court hearing by Carl Gardner 8 Feb 2012 at 7:21pm
I was live-tweeting today from the High Court hearing of Paul Chambers?s appeal in the 'Twitter joke' case ? an important case not just because of the way it represents the law?s arguably problematic collision with social media but because of the freedom of expression issues is raises. The hearing was interesting from a purely legal point of view, too. Chambers was convicted by a District Judge at Doncaster Magistrates? Court on the basis of this tweet: Mayer Brown City real estate chief joins US rival as London office head by Sofia Lind 8 Feb 2012 at 5:53pm
US firm Katten Muchin Rosenman has hired Mayer Brown City real estate head Peter Sugden as its new London managing partner. The firm said the appointment had come as part of its expansion plans in its core areas of real estate and financial services. Sugden is taking on the role one year after Katten saw its former London head, funds partner Martin Cornish, depart for K&L Gates in early 2011. Finance partner Edward Black has headed up the office in the interim period. Misys GC takes acting CEO role amid £2bn merger; A&O and Herbert Smith advising by Suzi Ring 8 Feb 2012 at 4:59pm
FTSE 250 technology company Misys has handed general counsel Tom Kilroy a role on the company's board as acting CEO amid £2bn merger negotiations with Swiss rival Temenos. Misys announced the appointment today (8 February) after former chief executive Mike Lawrie's resignation from the company. Ashurst LLPs: staff costs rise £5m as top earner takes home £1.05m by Suzi Ring 8 Feb 2012 at 2:53pm
Ashurst saw a £5m increase in staff costs during 2010-11 against a 2% drop in staff count, according to the firm's limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts. The accounts, recently filed on Companies House, show staff costs rose to £127.8m last year, up from £122.3m in 2009-10. Over the same period, total legal and support staff headcount fell from 1,634 to 1,602. The firm attributed the increase in staff costs to a rise in the number of partners outside the UK treated as salaried partners under the LLP for accountancy reasons. Wragges and Travers take on 100% as raft of firms confirm NQ retention by Rose Orlik 8 Feb 2012 at 2:19pm
Linklaters, Wragge & Co and Travers Smith are among a cluster of firms to have released their March retention rates, with Wragges and Travers both taking on 100% of their newly qualified (NQ) lawyers. Hogan Lovells confirms real estate litigator Cheffings as sole chairman by Sofia Lind 8 Feb 2012 at 10:26am
Hogan Lovells has confirmed the appointment of London real estate litigator Nicholas Cheffings as the first sole chairman of the transatlantic law firm. Cheffings will take up the post on 1 May for a three-year term, replacing current co-chairs Claudette Christian and John Young. Young is set to retire when his term ends on 30 April, while Christian will continue to practice at the firm. How the UK Supreme Court is setting the international standard for open justice by Adam Wagner 8 Feb 2012 at 10:14am
The UK Supreme Court began tweeting this week as @UKSupremeCourt to deserved international fanfare. Some even speculated that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange?s extradition fate could now be revealed on Twitter. The court is already being followed by almost 5,000 Twitter users (for the uninitiated, that is a lot) and has already beaten its own Twitter policy?s prediction of "2-3 tweets a week" with eight on its first day. The eventful debut tweets included seven live updates on the swearing-in ceremony of the court?s newest Justice, Lord Reed, and one relenting to Twitter user @FOImanUK?s valid point that contrary to the court?s stated policy, it should be possible to put freedom of information requests to the court via Twitter. Sidley and Paul Weiss join ranks of US firms posting rising revenues by Michael Goldhaber and David Bario 8 Feb 2012 at 12:02am
Sidley Austin and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison have become the latest US law firms to post rising revenues for 2011, reports the Am Law Daily. After enduring a flat year in 2010, Sidley Austin saw revenues rise 5.6% to $1.41bn (£887m) in 2011, while partner profits increased 9.6% to $1.6m (£1m). Executive committee chairman Thomas Cole credited the firm's performance to balanced growth across offices and practice groups, although he singled out Sidley's 21-lawyer Palo Alto office, which opened in 2009, for posting an almost 50% increase in revenue. Bakers secures Spanish coup with hire of former Garrigues managing partner by Chris Johnson 8 Feb 2012 at 12:00am
Baker & McKenzie has bolstered its Spanish practice with the hire of former Garrigues managing partner Jose Maria Alonso Puig, reports The Am Law Daily. Senior arbitrator Alonso, who spent nine years as managing partner of the 2,000-lawyer Spanish giant before standing down in 2009 to head the firm's arbitration practice, will join Bakers' Madrid office on 1 March. SNR Denton UK LLPs highlight falling profits and Turkey restructuring by Sofia Lind 7 Feb 2012 at 3:30pm
SNR Denton saw profit before tax shrink by around 40% last year across its operations outside the US, with the firm's latest limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts showing a fall in profit from £37.9m to £22.5m. The transatlantic firm's UK LLP accounts, which cover operations across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, show profit available for discretionary division fell from £6.2m to £615,000, against a slump in audited turnover from £166m to £152.5m. |
 Law News from Times Online Law News from Times Online SocGen writes off Kerviel as a footnote in history 15 Jun 2010 at 3:08pm The rogue trader who cost Société Générale almost ?5 billion was dismissed as an historical footnote today by executives seeking to draw a line under France?s biggest financial scandal.  Witnesses ?lied to hide Prince?s involvement,? court told 15 Jun 2010 at 1:00am Witnesses in the Chelsea Barracks case ?concocted an untrue story? to cover up the involvement of the Prince of Wales and the Emir of Qatar in the cancellation of an £81 million modernist housing project, the High Court was told yesterday.  Lord Saville ? an outstanding legal mind defined by Bloody Sunday inquiry 14 Jun 2010 at 7:50pm It is an irony of the Bloody Sunday inquiry that the most expensive and long judicial investigation in history was chaired by a judge chosen for his efficiency.  Thousands detained unlawfully in police stop-and-search blunder 11 Jun 2010 at 1:01am Home Secretary's anger, Crime Central  Barristers turn brokers as credit crunch hits divorce 10 Jun 2010 at 4:06pm The wife of the celebrity chef Marco Pierre White was due to enter the divorce courts on her own next week, without lawyers, to battle for a share of her husband?s estimated £50 million wealth. But publicity in The Times about her case has prompted a potential rescuer ? in the unlikely shape of a criminal set of barristers? chambers.  Hague court sentences Bosnian Serbs to life for Srebrenica genocide 10 Jun 2010 at 1:48pm Two Bosnian Serbs were today convicted of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.  Oil spill brings BP trouble from all corners 10 Jun 2010 at 1:01am Down in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is not just fighting to contain the massive oil leak from the explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. It is also trying to absorb a build-up in litigation that is threatening to come ashore and overwhelm the courts ? possibly on both sides of the Atlantic.  Lawyer of the Week: Amjad Malik 10 Jun 2010 at 1:01am Amjad Malik, a solicitor-advocate at the Rochdale firm Amjad Malik Solicitors, acted pro bono for three Pakistani students in a deportation appeal hearing at a Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London and won the appeal against deportation in the case of Shoaib Khan.  Michael Jackson bodyguard in libel trial challenge 10 Jun 2010 at 1:01am A controversial decision that a high-profile libel trial must go ahead without a jury is to be challenged in the Court of Appeal today.  Rogue trader: ?I acted like a complete idiot? 9 Jun 2010 at 12:11pm The rogue trader who lost his bank almost ?164.5 billion told a French court that he had acted in a "completely idiotic" way when he staked tens of billions of euros on the stock market.  President of the Supreme Court defends terror rulings 9 Jun 2010 at 1:01am The judge who heads Britain?s top court last night defended the Human Rights Act and recent rulings by courts that terrorist suspects cannot be sent home to their own countries.  The Academies Bill - a simple idea, complex problems 8 Jun 2010 at 1:00am Academies are a hybrid: independent schools funded by central government. Those that exist ? about 200 ? were created because of population growth, parental demand or closure of a failing school.  An open letter to Ken Clarke, the Lord Chancellor 8 Jun 2010 at 12:54am Congratulations on taking on responsibility for civil litigation.  Rogue trader prepares for court battle 7 Jun 2010 at 2:40pm He earned worldwide notoriety as the rogue trader who lost ?4.9 billion (£4 billion) and his name became a by-word in his native France for the excesses of global capitalism.  Business Doctor 6 Jun 2010 at 1:01am PENALTIES FOR LATE TAX PAYMENT  |
 LSC announcements The latest news and updates. Immigration Advisory Service announce their decision to go into administration by Legal Services Commission 11 Jul 2011 at 1:00am LSC to secure alternative provision as soon as possible Statement on Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill by Legal Services Commission 21 Jun 2011 at 1:00am LSC relaunches Provider Reference Groups by Legal Services Commission 17 Jun 2011 at 1:00am New PRG meetings to be held in summer Community Legal Advice and LSC websites ? latest news by Legal Services Commission 23 Mar 2011 at 12:00am Update on the web convergence programme New home for LSC websites by Legal Services Commission 10 Nov 2010 at 12:00am LSC working with MoJ to move all our web content to the Justice and Directgov websites Update on the outcome of the Law Society's Judicial Review by Legal Services Commission 15 Oct 2010 at 1:00am Written judgment received Public Bodies Bill ? LSC?s future status by Legal Services Commission 14 Oct 2010 at 1:00am LSC included in October 14 Written Ministerial Statement on Public Bodies Review Programme Chair thanks outgoing commissioners by Legal Services Commission 9 Jun 2010 at 1:00am Praise for hard work and dedication New minister visits Citizens' Advice Bureau by Legal Services Commission 9 Jun 2010 at 1:00am Legal aid minister Jonathan Djanogly meets staff and clients at Wandsworth CAB Help us to help you better by Legal Services Commission 29 Apr 2010 at 1:00am We want to know what you think about our service Award of Crown Court representation orders for either way cases in early adop... by Legal Services Commission 13 Jan 2010 at 12:00am Defendants refused legal aid on the grounds of means before 11 January in early adopter magistrates? courts may need to make new applications. New contractor for Defence Solicitor Call Centre by Legal Services Commission 6 Jan 2010 at 12:00am We have appointed a new contractor to run the Defence Solicitor Call Centre (DSCC) service. Crown Court Means Testing ? new guidance now available by Legal Services Commission 6 Jan 2010 at 12:00am New guidance has been published ahead of Crown Court Means Testing (CCMT) starting on 11 January 2010. Immigration tender deadlines by Legal Services Commission 6 Jan 2010 at 12:00am Tenders to deliver immigration and asylum advice must be submitted by 28 January 2010. Tenders for 2010 standard crime contract by Legal Services Commission 10 Dec 2009 at 12:00am Applications invited for new contract that will run from July 2010 |
World Legal News - JURIST JURIST's weblog of legal news and resources worth thinking about, by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and law students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Haiti rule of law has made significant progress: UN expert 9 Feb 2012 at 6:01pm [JURIST] The implementation of the rule of law in Haiti is making significant progress [press release], UN Independent Expert Michel Forst said Wednesday. Forst focused on improvements such as the establishment of judicial offices, the adoption of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [text, PDF] and the recent conviction of eight police officers [JURIST report] in a post-earthquake shooting. He said he was disappointed in the recent decision by Haiti's Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean that former president... Maldives issues arrest warrant for ex-president 9 Feb 2012 at 5:17pm [JURIST] Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed said Thursday he would remain in the country [BBC video] and try to regain his office after reports indicated that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. The specific charges are unclear [BBC report], but Nasheed maintains that the warrant is politically motivated. Nasheed, who resigned on Tuesday [press release; JURIST report], has said that he was forced out of office in a coup. Nasheed told reporters Thursday that he would remain for... Spain high court convicts judge Garzon in wire-tapping case 9 Feb 2012 at 5:00pm [JURIST] The Spanish Supreme Court [official website, in Spanish] on Thursday convicted [press release, in Spanish] Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] of ordering illegal wiretaps in jailhouses, after a trial lasting less than one month [JURIST report]. The court announced in October that Garzon would stand trial on the charges after the he was indicted in April [JURIST reports] for ordering the placement of wiretaps in jailhouses to record conversations between inmates and their lawyers. Garzon... UN report finds rise in criminal violence harmful to Caribbean economies 9 Feb 2012 at 4:27pm [JURIST] A rising crime rate in Caribbean nations is one of the main challenges threatening those nations' economies, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) [official website] reported [text, PDF] Wednesday. According to the Caribbean Human Development Report 2012, the "region is home to 8.5 percent of the world's population, yet it concentrates some 27 percent of the world's homicides. Violence and crime are therefore perceived by a majority of Latin American and Caribbean citizens as a top pressing challenge." Gang-related violence... Russia lawmakers approve stricter sex offender law 9 Feb 2012 at 4:00pm [JURIST] The Russian State Duma [official website, in Russian] on Tuesday approved [press release, in Russian] legislation imposing stricter penalties for individuals convicted of sex offenses against minors. The legislation, initiated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev [official website, in Russian; JURIST news archive], prohibits probation and sentence deferrals for perpetrators and provides that repeat offenders could face up to life in prison. Offenders are also permitted to voluntarily submit to chemical castration, a reversible process consisting of a series of... US, Arab states not bound by grant of immunity to Yemen president: HRW 9 Feb 2012 at 3:55pm [JURIST] US and Arab Gulf states are not legally bound by a decision to grant immunity to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh [official website, in Arabic; JURIST news archive] and should refrain from doing so, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said in a report [text] released Wednesday. Last month, the Yemeni parliament approved a bill granting complete immunity [JURIST report] to Saleh for crimes committed during his regime in exchange for him stepping down. In the report, HRW recommends... Federal judge allows 'secret evidence' in al Qaeda trial 9 Feb 2012 at 1:47pm [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky [official website] on Wednesday allowed "secret evidence" to be used against an Iraqi refugee for terrorism charges, finding probable cause that he is "an agent of a foreign power." Mohanad Shareef Hammadi is charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and terrorist organizations and conspiracy to transfer weapons to terrorist organizations, specifically al Qaeda [JURIST news archive]. Judge Thomas Russell, after assessing all of... Canada security service authorized to use information obtained through torture 8 Feb 2012 at 6:21pm [JURIST] The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) [official website] is authorized to use and pass on information obtained through torture when Canadian lives are at stake, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews [official website] said Tuesday. The statements come in response to a controversial 2010 directive authorizing the use of such information that was obtained earlier this week [Reuters report] by a Canadian news agency through freedom of information laws. The directive allows the CSIS to use information which may have... UN rights chief calls for protection of Syria civilians 8 Feb 2012 at 6:13pm [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] on Wednesday urged the international community [press release] to take action to protect Syrian civilians. Pillay argued that the failure of the UN Security Council [official website] to agree on collective action against Syria has encouraged the Syrian government to attack and kill civilians in order to quash dissent. Pillay declared that the Syrian government's violence against its own people constitutes a "serious international crime" and called on world... Uganda reintroduces legislation criminalizing homosexuality 8 Feb 2012 at 5:15pm [JURIST] The Parliament of Uganda [official website] on Tuesday reintroduced legislation that would criminalize certain homosexual activities. Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] has criticized the bill [press release] as "a grave assault on human rights." The proposed legislation is a new version of another bill [Reuters report] first introduced in October 2009. The original bill [text, PDF] contained provisions requiring the death penalty for "repeat offenders." It is not clear whether the new bill has removed some of these provisions,... |
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