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Mishcon Tapped To Aid Striking Barristers Over Gov't List
The Criminal Bar Association has instructed Mishcon de Reya LLP to look into whether it was lawful for the Ministry of Justice to instruct court staff to keep a list of the barristers taking strike action over inadequate government funding for the justice system.
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Amazon has made it easier for users to cancel their subscriptions to its fast-delivery service Prime — with just two steps — to comply with European Union consumer laws, the bloc's executive arm said on Friday.
An airline tycoon has sought permission to revive his attempt to set aside a $4 million fraud judgment against him, claiming at a London court on Friday that the ruling was the result of the "most grotesque lies and deceits" practiced in the English courts.
An attorney for Ocado told a judge on Friday that failure to approve a committal application against a former senior Jones Day lawyer for instructing a client to delete a secure messaging system would "undermine" court search orders.
Julius Baer has agreed to pay €105 million ($110 million) to settle a lawsuit brought by the liquidator of a defunct Lithuanian bank that accused the Swiss lender of failing to prevent two former executives from embezzling assets.
The retirement industry this year is expecting the first U.K. companies to begin transferring their pension liabilities into a new type of investment fund, issuing a new challenge in the booming market for pensions deals so far dominated by insurance buy-in deals.
A court granted Goldman Sachs a winding-up order for a borrowing unit within a private equity-backed manufacturing group Thursday, finding that it had jurisdiction over the lawsuit because the company was based in England when the insolvency proceedings began.
A former senior Jones Day lawyer testified at trial Thursday that he gave an order to "burn" a messaging application to protect his politician wife from being dragged into litigation brought by online grocer Ocado without considering the need to preserve communications.
The U.K.'s specialist antitrust court ruled Thursday that a £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) lawsuit accusing Apple of abusing its market dominance by charging "excessive" commissions on app sales can go ahead as a collective action.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and U.S. investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners have said they will acquire a 72.55% stake in a German railcar lessor for approximately €7 billion ($7.3 billion).
Companies could be attracted to float in London rather than the U.S. or Europe if the standard and premium listing segments were merged and burdensome standards reduced — but lawyers are watching to see whether this could result in the loss of the sponsor role, which they fear could put too much pressure on the Financial Conduct Authority to police stock flotations.