All articles by Michael Cross – Page 4
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News
Knights heralds 29% profit growth
Listed consolidator to focus on organic growth - though still ‘very much in the market’ for acquisitions.
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US elite firms 'heading for a Pan Am-style fall'
Report paints a picture of declining productivity at top-100 firms, which are increasing fees and headcount despite flat demand for their services.
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Bar chair: Next PM should emulate Thatcher on pay rises
In inaugural address, Sam Townend KC calls for investment in justice and warns of collapse in early guilty pleas - and of the cost of legal regulation.
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Global rights body condemns Iran after at least 707 executions in 2023
Seven prisoners executed in one day for crimes including ‘propaganda against the system’, IBA Human Rights Institute says.
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M&A activity falls to lowest figure since 2013
US firms dominate global league table of corporate legal advisers.
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Legal team rebuked in run-up to marathon 'Satoshi' identity trial
'Unfortunate that Dr Wright’s team did not engage more constructively with my requests and attempts at active case management,' judge observes.
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‘Veil of secrecy’ to be lifted over trust ownership of land
Consultation proposals include ‘maximalist approach’ of making all information public by default.
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Opinion
The end of Susskind?
It’s fashionable to sneer at futurologists - but look at what the lord chief justice’s IT adviser got right.
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Susskind steps down from adviser role after 25 years
Futurologist and author has provided IT advice to six successive lord chief justices, starting with Lord Bingham.
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Hogan Lovells partner to be City watchdogs’ watchdog
Rachel Kent to begin five-year stint as financial regulators complaints commissioner in January.
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'Persons unknown' order granted against crypto fraudsters
'It would be a reproach to the common law were it not to demonstrate sufficient resource and flexibility to afford a remedy,' judge observes.
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Hitler partly to blame for 2021 blast damage, Court of Appeal confirms
High Court judge was correct to back insurer's refusal of liability for loss 'occasioned by war' - even though war ended 76 years previously.
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Claimant firms hail 'turbo charge' for dieselgate hearings
2024 'will be a year of reckoning for any manufacturer that cheated emissions tests', group litigation leader says.
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MoJ to move 50 civil service jobs to Wales
Wrexham is the main Welsh beneficiary of the latest acceleration in the Places for Growth relocation programme.
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Don't shun careful use of AI, judges told
Technology 'can and will' help create an efficient and accessible digital justice system, master of the rolls says.
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AI hallucinates nine ‘helpful’ case authorities
Judge accepts that appellant was unaware citations provided by ‘friend in a solicitor’s office’ were fabrications.
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New solicitor general named in Jenrick resignation shuffle
Barrister Robert Courts MP takes up the portfolio as Michael Tomlinson KC MP moves to Home Office.
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Hudgell latest to take employee-ownership route
Founder to transfer majority of shares in national firm to an employee ownership trust.
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Judge dismisses Dyson's libel claim against Mirror
'Screw the country' was honest opinion and did not cause serious harm to domestic appliance innovator, court finds.
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Academics warn of risk from ‘inversion SLAPPs’
Even where the motivations of clients and funders are altruistic, lawyers should 'exercise independent judgement', report for LSB states.