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Top-50 defendant firm prospering under private equity ownership
North-west firm Keoghs, part of the Davies insurance group, continues to grow income and profits.
- Opinion
Truth at a premium. Again
Association of British Insurers unveils a ‘10-point plan for reducing motor premiums’.
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Full £10bn Mastercard group action still in play, insists lawyer for Walter Merricks
Willkie’s Boris Bronfentrinker dismisses assertion by Mastercard lawyers Freshfields that new CAT ruling kills off bulk of the claim.
- Opinion
Margin calls
What stands out from the latest batch of LLP accounts are inflation-busting increases in wage bills.
- Opinion
Attitude problems
How can a regulator tell lawyers how to be good citizens as well as good lawyers? It that even a regulator’s job?
- News
In Focus: 'Mildly ridiculous' - LSB chief’s candid verdict on the state of legal regulation
Amid mounting public outrage over the Post Office scandal, Legal Services Board chief Matthew Hill has delivered an outspoken valedictory message on the current state of legal regulation.
- Opinion
Compassion on the ration
This week’s Gazette carries an exposé of what happens when the tattered compact between state and citizen starts to break down completely.
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Top earner paid £6.3m as soaring salaries hit profits at Fieldfisher
Over £13m has been paid to the European firm’s highest earner in the past two years.
- Opinion
Labour pains
Organised labour is predictably outraged by the resurrection of employment tribunal fees. Trade unions can hardly claim to be surprised, however.
- News
Government resurrects employment tribunal fees
Controversial charging regime introduced by Chris Grayling was axed following a Supreme Court ruling in 2017.
- Opinion
Bucking the market
We have learned to accept the primacy of ‘market forces’. Yet exceptions can always be made for reasons of political expediency.
- Opinion
New year resolution
As we enter 2024, I am determined to strike an uncharacteristically optimistic note.
- News
Legal sector revenues still climbing, City reports - but growth rate halves
TheCityUK’s annual bellwether finds that legal services contributed £34bn to the economy in 2022.
- Opinion
Violence in court
A disgruntled spouse in hot pursuit of a fleeing judge through the corridors of a courthouse sounds like something from a Carry On film. In reality, the scene which played out at Milton Keynes last week could hardly be a less appropriate prompt for ribaldry.
- Opinion
Thinking the ‘unthinkable’
I wish the Office for Budget Responsibility had been around when I was a young reporter.
- Opinion
In a blue funk
Potential ramifications for justice and the rule of law if, as the polls predict, the Tories suffer meltdown at the next general election.
- News
Regulate litigation funding, say 88% of London litigators
Litigation bellwether also reveals that the impact of PACCAR is expected to be minimal - and that firms are not losing work overseas.
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Justice faces new round of spending cuts
Office for Budget Responsibility outlines swingeing impact of Treasury spending assumptions on unprotected departments.