No5 Chambers barristers Ian Dove QC, Tim Jones and Nina Pindham, on behalf of Birmingham City Council, successfully defended judicial review proceedings in the High Court on 22 October 2013. The decision being challenged was the defendant’s adoption of the preliminary decisions of an inspector appointed to conduct an inquiry into the registration of two […]
The UK is under pressure to harness more renewable energy. How does this interact with local planning considerations? With climate change concerns rarely out of the news and with ever-increasing oil prices, the need to harness renewable energy and push ahead with large-scale renewable projects is key. While electricity production from sources such as wind […]
The Supreme Court has ruled that it is sufficient, for the purposes of a prosecution pursuant to regulation 44(1)(d) of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, for the prosecution to prove that the defendant had food in its possession for the purpose of sale that was the subject of a mark or label showing a ‘use-by’ […]
Issues of data management and data security continue to be in the spotlight. David Laville considers recent developments and what these mean for business. Recent media reports have revealed the existence of a computer system called PRISM through which officials at the US National Security Agency can apparently track and store information flowing through server […]
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has concluded its investigation into the membership terms of health and fitness operators. The investigation cast a spotlight on unfair terms in consumer contracts and unfair trading practices. In August 2011, the OFT secured an enforcement order in the High Court preventing Ashbourne Management Services Ltd, a gym management company, […]
Walker Morris has been ranked in 27 practice areas in the 2014 edition of Chambers & Partners. These include five UK-wide rankings for administrative and public law, education, local government, PFI/PPP and retail. In addition, the law firm picked up new rankings for its specialist areas of professional negligence, social housing and education. Walker Morris […]
DLA Piper has announced that Teri Donaldson has joined the firm’s litigation practice as a partner in the Houston office. Donaldson has a broad environmental, energy and white-collar practice involving both litigation and transactional matters. She has participated in numerous high-profile investigations and prosecutions, having tried more than 50 cases as lead counsel, and defended against several […]
DLA Piper has boosted its Austria office with the hire of Nabucco International Gas Pipeline’s chief legal counsel Andreas Gunst. The in-house lawyer will join the energy team as a partner after four years as as chief legal counsel and compliance officer at Nabucco, prior to which he was an associate at DLA Piper’s London […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within firms and offices in the Asia Pacific region. Australia Gilbert + Tobin has hired two senior partners from DLA Piper’s Melbourne office, banking and finance partner Tony Holland and project finance partner Damian McNair. The firm has also appointed special counsel Luke Westmore, who joins from […]
Last week, pursuant to a statutory mandate included in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, six federal financial regulatory agencies issued proposed standards for assessing the diversity policies and practices of regulated entities. The proposed standards are open for public comment for a 60-day period, and final standards are likely to be […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed another former Brussels chief as co-head of its antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice. Brussels-based competition chief David Broomhall took over on Friday (1 November) to lead the group with current co-head Martin Klusmann. He succeeds John Davies, who has stepped down from the role to work full time as a […]
Eversheds has advised the UK arm of private equity group Baird Capital on its purchase of a majority stake in Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, a provider of management consultancy services to the asset and wealth management industries. The transaction values the company at £28m. The Eversheds team was led by partner Richard Moulton and assisted […]