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 editorA 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 became a
The Great Palestine Money-GrabBen Thomson, LawFuel contributing editorThe 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, designed to
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Mishcon de Reya Vision 2030: AI Disruption, Sector Focus, and Dame Alison Rose as ChairCharlotte JacobsIn 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 but are
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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 CourthousesDavid 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 the
Banksy’s latest London salvo, where a judge, in full wig-and-gown regalia, is depicted beating a protester with a gavel, was slapped onto the Royal Courts of Justice on September 8, 2025. It was swiftly hidden under black plastic and barricades—not because we don’t like powerful art, but because the building is Grade-I listed and we
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The Law Firm Billing MythBen Thomson, LawFuel contributing editorThe legal profession has always been fond of a long lunch, a late night, and a generous definition of billable. But every now and then, someone pushes the grift so far it becomes a morality tale, which is what just occurred with an associate at Irwin Mitchell
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Addleshaw’s Pay Freeze Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editorAddleshaw Goddard decided to turn up the chill factor on its own junior lawyers as the UK-based firm has frozen the £100,000 starting salaries for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers, choosing instead to divert an extra £1 million into its already-healthy bonus pool for senior lawyers.So much for “investing
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