The founding partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s Australia office, Michael Mills, is aiming to more than double the size of the base from two partners to up to 12 partners. The Sydney office was opened in early September, several months after the firm initially announced its Australia launch (10 May 2013). Quinn Emanuel now […]
On 26 July 2013, the Higher Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation posted Information Letter No. 158 dated 9 July 2013 on its website, adopting and recommending that lower courts apply the ‘Digest of Case Law on Certain Matters Related to the Consideration by Arbitrazh Courts of Proceedings Involving Foreign Persons’. The digest covers a […]
A barrister from Enterprise Chambers is leaving the set to establish his own chambers, focusing exclusively on e-disclosure. Damian Murphy will launch the new set, to be called Indicium Chambers, in January. He told The Lawyer that the move followed an increase in e-disclosure work over the past few years and would enable him to […]
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The Jackson reforms, which came into force in April, have brought with them a number of measures designed to control the costs of litigation — one of the main planks of which is the requirement of each party to file budgets with the court at least seven days before the first Case Management Conference (CMC) and […]
Next year, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 will make it lawful for same-sex couples to marry in England and Wales. The act is due to come into force in summer 2014. (It will not apply to Scotland or Northern Ireland.) Employers and pension scheme trustees will need to consider how they will […]
IT security company Imperva has published a report in the September issue of its Hacker Intelligence Initiative on what it believes to be a major security weakness in the coding make-up of PHP. The PHP platform is an alternative to Microsoft’s Active Server Page technology and is mainly used on Linex web servers. It is […]
The European Commission is reviewing the export control regime in the EU with an intention to create a streamlined regime to harmonise the discrepancies arising from existing conflicting export control systems in the various member states. In June 2013, Brussels played host to a conference aiming to review the current state of the export control […]
The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) has launched two new schemes to help organisations rapidly obtain expert assistance in the event they fall victim to a cyber attack. In the event of a cyber attack compromising an organisation’s network, immediate action is required. The Cyber Incident Response schemes will provide a list of government-assured and […]
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the national curriculum for computing that will come into force from September 2014. The curriculum covers key stages 1 through to 4 — children aged between five and 16 — and has been designed to have computer science theory at its core. It will replace the former ICT curriculum […]
Over the past five years, the UK economy has seen its highest levels of unemployment since the dark days of 1993, but the UK technology sector is defying the double-dip employment slump. UK unemployment reached its peak of 2.68 million in 2011 following one of the worst economic recessions in history. Coupled with the ongoing […]
The eagerly awaited government response to its consultation over TUPE reform was issued last month and reveals that changes to the 2006 TUPE Regulations will not be as significant as suggested previously. The government response to its consultation over TUPE reform was issued in September 2013, with revised regulations expected to be laid before Parliament […]