UK Chancellor Reeves Aims Her Sights on Lawyers & Others Ben Borman, LawFuel contributing editor UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is eyeing roughly £2 billion a year by slapping employer-style National Insurance contributions (NICs) on members of LLPs, that’s lawyers, accountants and anyone else who looks suspiciously well-remunerated. Under the current regime, LLP members are taxed […]
Simmons & Simmons have grown their pensions team in the UK, hiring top pensions risk lawyer Amrit McLean (pictured) and senior lawyers from DLA Piper. McLean has extensive experience and contact within the pensions risk transfer arena, a key component in insurance deals. The firm’s media release concerning the move is below – International law
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Raise a glass (or a fountain pen) – the legal profession’s most antiquated greeting has finally been given the boot. The UK Law Society has formally binned “Dear Sirs”, a phrase that clings to legal correspondence like mothballs on a barrister’s robe. The new guidance urges lawyers to ditch the gendered opener that harks back
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The High Court in London begins hearing a vast diesel emissions case involving major law firm changes and more than one point six million claimants against Mercedes Ford Nissan Renault and Peugeot Citroën with opening slated for Monday and expected to run for weeks. The claims centre on alleged defeat devices that cut emissions in
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Pogust Goodhead has told the High Court it wants out of the driver’s seat in the diesel emissions group action, a case so large it needs its own traffic management plan. The firm represents roughly 750,000 of the 1.8 million claims lodged against 14 manufacturers over alleged cheating on diesel emissions, but now wants Leigh
Tom Borman, LawFuel contributing editor A High Court judge has ruled that PPE Medpro, the supplier linked to former lingerie queen Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman, breached its 2020 contract to deliver 25 million sterile surgical gowns to the Department of Health and Social Care. Mone, who grew up in Glasgow and
The Great Palestine Money-Grab Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor The UK recognised a Palestinian state on 21 September 2025, all warm words and zero line items. Within days, the bill arrived. Mahmoud Abbas’s camp is pushing a “Britain Owes Palestine” petition: acknowledgment, apology, reparations, the lot. It’s a litigation-shaped press release, sharpened by serious counsel,
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Mishcon de Reya Vision 2030: AI Disruption, Sector Focus, and Dame Alison Rose as Chair Charlotte Jacobs In the cutthroat arena of legal evolution, Mishcon de Reya has unveiled its ambitious Vision 2030 (MV2030), zeroing in on three powerhouse sectors: the innovation economy, private wealth and private capital, and real estate. These aren’t random picks
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Mishcon de Reya has announced revenues of £330 million for the last financial year – an increase of 9% from the previous year, with profits rising 14% to £110 million. This is the first time that profit has exceeded £100 million. It marks another year of robust growth, capping a decade in which the firm
From Global Diplomacy to Leaking Courthouses David Lammy has swapped the trappings of global diplomacy for the joys of leaking court lavatories and backlogged justice. The former foreign secretary is now justice secretary, taking on a role that’s less about international summits and more about fractured legal aid, crumbling court estates, and prisons stuffed to
