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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 Thomas Spigolon | June 26, 2023
The Chalmers Adams firm has added 11 lawyers this year, including Alex Kaufman, who serves as general counsel to the Georgia Republican Party.
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By Allison Dunn | June 23, 2023
"This case clarifies the meaning of that phrase. We hold that a municipality must pay its employees attending a policy academy the 'same basic pay as regular sworn officers,'" Associate Justice Christopher P. Hodgens wrote on behalf of the unanimous three-judge panel.
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By Marianna Wharry | June 23, 2023
The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld a trial court's decision to deny the state's motion to dismiss a suit claiming it was negligent when it transferred a patient to an out-of-state facility where she later died.
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By Michael A. Mora | June 23, 2023
"Moreover, while we think a legal degree confers many advantages, we do not believe it equips us to accurately predict if or when another global respiratory pandemic will infect our shared world," the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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By Amanda Bronstad | June 23, 2023
3M's $12.5 billion deal to resolve lawsuits brought by hundreds of water providers is one of the largest settlements to date involving contaminated drinking water, but it's a fraction of its legal liability involving 'forever chemicals.'
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By Charles Toutant | June 22, 2023
The decision to release boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was met with intense and long-lasting opposition from many, said Bruce Rosen, an attorney at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden who was hired as a law clerk for the judge to help on the Carter case.
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By Lisa Willis | June 22, 2023
Gov. Ron Desantis suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren in 2022.
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By Jane Wester | June 22, 2023
Documents unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of New York revealed that Rep. George Santos, R-New York, had his father and aunt co-sign his bond…
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By Jimmy Hoover | June 21, 2023
Justices Thomas, Barrett and Kavanaugh suggest the law combatting fraudulent billing of the government violates executive-branch authority.
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By Brad Kutner | June 21, 2023
Merle's record, focusing on the impact voter ID laws have on people of color, was scrutinized in a tense Senate nomination hearing. With one Democrat voting against her, Vice President Kamala Harris had to break a tie to enable the final confirmation vote.
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