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By Friederike Heine | January 26, 2012
The Government's proposed legal aid reforms are facing further criticism in the House of Lords this month as discussions continue over the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. The Bill – which sets out the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ's) plans to cut £350m from the annual legal aid budget – is currently under discussion in the upper house, with peers highlighting the potentially negative impact of the reforms.
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By Legal Week | January 26, 2012
Freshfields' Simon Evans and Alice Greenwell examine whether the Government's pay proposals will drive change
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By Melanie Law | January 26, 2012
Simmons' James Bresslaw outlines the UK Government's response to the ICB's recommendations for a banking system reform
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By Suzi Ring | January 19, 2012
Finance partners have welcomed plans by the UK Government to help strengthen London's position as a leading financial centre by turning it into an offshore trading hub for China's renminbi (RMB) currency. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne signed a deal on Monday (16 January) in Hong Kong setting out plans to make London a trading centre for the currency, which is becoming increasingly important as China's economic power continues to grow.
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By Friederike Heine | December 7, 2011
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is facing a potential negligence claim worth more than £68m from the Department for Transport (DfT) for advice it gave the organisation in 2006 in relation to a rail franchise agreement with Stagecoach South Western Trains (SSWT)...
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By Legal Week | November 30, 2011
Wide-ranging employment shake up may cut red tape but advisers doubt core reform claims. Sofia Lind reports
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By Legal Week | October 26, 2011
White & Case's Alistair Graham says that while deferred prosecution agreements may add to the armoury of UK prosecutors, companies may need greater certainty as to their use before they will self-report
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By Legal Week | October 26, 2011
Sullivan & Cromwell's Juan Rodriguez and Louise Delahunty warn the Bribery Act and competition law could prove a lethal combination for companies with poor compliance
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By Legal Week | October 12, 2011
"The Bill is intended 'to re-balance the law in favour of enterprise'..." Mayer Brown's Jayne Backett and Shaeron Yapp on a private member's bill of interest to the banking sector
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By Legal Week | September 21, 2011
The Government tells us that the UK has a "world-class" competition regime. It is hard to know exactly what this means, but the underlying sentiment is clear: the UK regime is one of the best in the world at protecting and encouraging competition. Now we are told that it needs to get better still.
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By Colleen Murphy | June 20, 2023
"I sent letters out to every affinity bar president last week asking them to state whether or not they have a pipeline for judicial candidates from their bars," New Jersey State Bar President Timothy F. McGoughran said. "The N.J. State Bar is attempting to create a more streamlined pipeline to the governor's office and to the senators for candidates."
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By Jane Wester | June 20, 2023
U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert, rejecting Santos' appeal, said the names must be unsealed on Thursday at noon, giving the Long Island congressman approximately 44 hours to potentially "move to modify the conditions of his release, should the suretors seek to withdraw from serving as suretors," according to a docket entry.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | June 20, 2023
"Under Claiborne, Mckesson cannot be liable for violence unless he encouraged violence. It is not enough that he encouraged or committed unlawful-but-nonviolent actions that preceded violence," Circuit Judge Don R. Willett said in dissent.
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By Brad Kutner | June 20, 2023
Expectations are high for FERC to engage in rulemaking and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to release opinions that could impact the industry for years.
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By Amanda O'Brien | June 20, 2023
"When I read the press about this, there is an optimism that [the state] is going to craft a bill that will solve the problem," said Saul Ewing partner Peter Murphy. "It's really difficult in practice."
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By Lisa Willis | June 20, 2023
"We don't know the extent of readiness that Mr. Trump's lawyers adds," court observer Michael Garcia Petit said. "We don't know how long it's going to take for the government to provide Mr. Trump's lawyers with all the documentation."
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By Abigail Adcox | June 20, 2023
Everett Eissenstat most recently served as chair of North America and global trade lead for Edelman Global Advisory. Previously, he was senior vice president of global public policy at General Motors.
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By Alexander Lugo | June 16, 2023
Justice Ricky Polston stepped down from the high court at the end of March and immediately went to work as general counsel at Citizens Property Insurance, Florida's not-for-profit insurer of last resort.
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By Amanda O'Brien | June 16, 2023
Sens. Dan Laughlin, R-49, and Sharif Street, D-3, announced the bipartisan legislation in May, and approval is a possibility in the fall.
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By Lisa Willis | June 16, 2023
"As litigators, we're looking to see what the causes are for the failure, and based on that, who do you point the finger to?" said David Hawthorne, a partner at Pathman Schermer Tandy in Miami.
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