Another battle in the long-running war between the high-profile Tchenguiz brothers and the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been fought and this time the SFO has come out on top. The brothers have been battling the agency since their arrest in 2011. They are seeking damages for trespass, wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution. Now Robert […]
US entertainment firm SmithDehn has opened in Northern Ireland, months after it kicked off a media law course in the region with client HBO. The New York-based firm had been in negotiations with Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI) to open up in Londonderry since October, with its launch in the area marking its second outpost […]
Eight firms including Slater & Gordon, Irwin Mitchell and Hodge Jones & Allen are gearing up to battle Osborne Clarke over claims for compensation from the £3.3m estate of former TV presenter Jimmy Savile. Newspaper adverts yesterday called for new claimants alleging sexual abuse by Savile to contact Osborne Clarke, which is representing the estate executor Natwest. […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Arabian Cement Company (ACC) on its IPO on the Egyptian Exchange, marking the stock exchange’s first new listing since 2011. The firm won the first-time instruction from ACC following a competitive pitch process, partially due to recommendations by the joint global coordinators on the offering, EFG Hermes and CI Capital. […]
DLA Piper has announced that former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Bart Chilton has joined the firm as a senior policy adviser in the Washington DC office. Commissioner Chilton’s 30-year career in government service includes working in the US Congress and serving in the executive branch during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. He […]
Paul Cairnes from No5 Chambers has represented the only successful appellant in a public local inquiry into three conjoined appeals (comprising four potential schemes) against the refusal of planning permission for residential development schemes in Feniton, Devon. Dubbed by the BBC as a ‘super inquiry’, all of the appeal schemes were highly contentious locally and […]
Ian Bridge from No5 Chambers has been instructed by Keith Wood of Lewis Nedas in several cases involving applications for the committal of alleged contemnors. The High Court has clarified the public funding arrangements for those facing a committal application. It has been unclear since the commencement of LASPO how those facing imprisonment for contempt […]
Chris Young from No5 Chambers will be on a panel of speakers for the debate ‘Can the plan-led system deliver?’ at the Planning and Environment Bar Association (PEBA) National Conference at Hogan Lovells in London on 16 May 2014. PEBA’s seventh national conference — entitled ‘The planning system — too many snakes and too few ladders?’ — […]
Karanovic & Nikolic has hosted a number of participants from the largest companies in Macedonia at the first-ever Corporate Counsel Forum held in Skopje on 28 March 2014. Panellists and participants discussed the most important categories of industry-specific legal risks for Macedonian companies, as well as the most efficient ways to identify and manager legal […]
For the fourth consecutive year, Karanovic & Nikolic recently hosted both students and arbitrators on the occasion of the VII Belgrade Open Pre-Moot organised by the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade. This year more than 60 teams competed, making it the largest preparatory competition that has been held in Belgrade thus far. […]
No5 Chambers’ Becket Bedford, with Zane Malik as junior, has won a significant advance in the protection of child rights on asylum. The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of a former Afghan child applicant for asylum. Calling for more open mindedness and greater tolerance of argument addressed to child rights, the court extended the […]
German heavyweight Noerr’s co-leaders reveal the secret of their firm’s success. Over the past few years, while most of the rest of Europe has struggled, Germany has flourished. And German law firms have ridden the crest of that unlikely wave, with most reporting year-on-year growth for 2013. Within Germany, one of the stand-out performers is […]