All articles by Sam Tobin – Page 18
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NewsSFO’s disclosure failings to be probed by former High Court judge
Sir David Calvert-Smith will review what went wrong in the SFO’s prosecution of a former Unaoil executive, attorney general announces.
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NewsENRC ‘highly disputes’ allegations in ‘dirty money’ book, High Court hears
Preliminary hearing in High Court libel claim adjourned over medical emergency shortly after it begins.
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NewsDLA Piper wades into NQ salary war
International firm bumps NQ pay to £95,000 in London and £65,000 in its regional offices.
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NewsJR reforms face tough committee stage in Lords
Former master of the rolls Lord Etherton predicts ‘a plethora of satellite litigation and appeals’ following judicial review reforms.
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NewsStill no start date for royal commission
Justice minister tells peers the government is ‘still focused, in due course, [on] having a royal commission on criminal justice’.
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News'Troubling': Men earn twice as much as women at bar, survey shows
Disparity holds true across the profession and the country, regulator reports.
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NewsDisbarral for fabricating court order in ‘Trump dossier’ case
Leading media lawyer found to have misled her client by sending him the fabricated order.
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NewsSRA and Post Office agree disclosure order in Horizon investigation
Post Office agrees wording of disclosure notice which ‘does not relate to individuals that are involved with the Post Office today’.
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NewsGoogle fails to get claimant's ATE premium disclosed
Competition Appeal Tribunal refuses to disclose proposed representative claimant’s after-the-event insurance premiums for second time in recent months.
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NewsMirror publisher makes £2m interim payment in ‘phone hacking’ litigation
Mirror Group Newspapers agrees to pay just over £2m in respect of costs in claims for alleged unlawful information gathering.
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NewsLet juniors conduct more advocacy, Commercial Court says
The Commercial Court ‘encourages oral advocacy to be undertaken by junior advocates’, it says in its latest guide.
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NewsMagistrate 'accidentally' breached coronavirus restrictions
Lindsay Dalby, of the Coventry and Warwickshire bench, given formal advice after getting fixed penalty notice.
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NewsStrikes not ‘extraordinary circumstances’ for cancelled flights, CoA rules
Strikes over pay or conditions will not generally involve ‘extraordinary circumstances’, Court of Appeal rules.
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NewsMishcon accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ to £3m of ‘potentially tainted’ cash
London firm faces a High Court claim for the return of £2.9m in payments made by a former client.
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NewsLawyer’s extradition appeal error not attributable to client – Supreme Court
Distinction can be drawn between requested person’s actions and their lawyer on extradition appeals, Supreme Court rules.
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NewsCMA struggling to hire M&A lawyers due to 'very hot' private sector
Andrea Coscelli tells MPs the Competition and Markets Authority is ‘constantly in a way fighting for talent’.
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NewsEx-City partner struck off for misleading High Court mounts appeal
Peter Gray says his strike off was based on findings which were ‘no longer supportable’ before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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NewsGood Law Project tries to revive PPE claim after service blunder
Legal campaign group says the High Court wrongly failed to take into account ‘the wider public interest issues arising in the case’.
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NewsFormer SFO director joins international firm
Sir David Green QC joins Cohen & Gresser as a partner in its white collar defence and regulation practice group.
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NewsBar slowly becoming more diverse but 'still more work to be done'
The Bar Standards Board says a ‘disproportionately high number’ of barristers attended an independent school.