Karanovic & Nikolic hosted the recent spring meeting of the officers and council members of the European Forum of the International Bar Association (IBA). Attended by 20 colleagues from all over Europe, the two-day meeting included a law firm management training session given to more than 100 lawyers at the Serbian Bar Association, as well […]
DLA Piper’s franchise and distribution practice has been recognised among Franchise Times’ 2014 Dealmakers of the Year. The publication highlighted DLA Piper’s representation of Roark Capital in its purchase of CKE, which was led by partners Richard Greenstein and Richard Morey and included more than 3,400 Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s restaurants in 42 states and […]
Antonio Bavasso, co-head of Allen & Overy’s antitrust practice, will co-chair the GCR Live 3rd Annual Telecoms, Media & Technology conference at the firm’s London office on 26 June 2014. The programme includes sessions on competition issues in the telecoms sector — including regulation, competition enforcement, consolidation, reforms and their impact, big data control and […]
DLA Piper is a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and actively promotes the principles of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption as outlined in the UNGC. As part of its commitment to the UNGC, DLA Piper has published its first public ‘Communication on Progress’, which outlines the actions it has taken […]
Clifford Chance has found no evidence that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) set out to defraud small business customers in order to turn a profit, following allegations contained in a report by Lawrence Tomlinson last year. Partners Carlos Conceicao and Kelwin Nicholls were drafted in by the bank to lead the investigation at the […]
Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein’s five-year formal law alliance (FLA) with boutique Singaporean firm Pan Asia has come to an end. The two firms have bucked a wider trend by withdrawing from the relationship, a move believed to have been triggered by “divergent views and interests”. Many more international firms are moving into Singapore using a […]
Judicial dissent is in decline in the UK’s top court as the Supreme Court moves towards a culture of collegiality on the bench, research by The Lawyer has revealed. Just weeks after he took over as Supreme Court president from Lord Phillips in 2012, Lord Neuberger gave his strongest signal to date that he was […]
Ramby de Mello from No5 Chambers, instructed by Stuart Luke of Bhatia Best Solicitors, has represented a Hindu prisoner who was granted interim relief to attend his father’s funeral free of handcuffs and to be able to participate fully as chief mourner. The claimant was given permission to attend the funeral, on the condition that […]
Adam Farrer from No5 Chambers has acted for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) at the inquest into the death of a female patient who was being detained in a secure hospital in Lincoln. The six-day inquest was before HM coroner Mr Fisher and a jury. In 1997, the deceased was convicted of the manslaughter […]
No5 Chambers’ planning group was described by Planning magazine as home to ‘a number of noted and rising stars in the field’. The publication ranked both Ian Dove QC and Martin Kingston QC in the top three silks — a position they have occupied for the last three years. Dove QC has previously been described as […]
Commenting on news that UK construction output decreased in February 2014, Michael Conroy Harris, a construction expert at Eversheds, said that the bad weather impact should be seen as a mere dampener to growth. He said: ‘Everyone has been expecting an impact like this from the recent bad weather. What is telling is that only […]
Ian Dove QC and James Corbet Burcher from No5 Chambers have appeared before Mr Justice Lindblom in the first case to be heard in the Planning Court: R (Jones) v English Heritage (CO/1932/2013). Dove and Corbet Burcher represent battlefield archaeologist Chas Jones in the renewal of his application for permission to challenge English Heritage’s refusal […]