Slaughter and May advised Ocado Group plc (Ocado) on a new £100 million unsecured three year revolving credit facility with Abbey National Treasury Services Plc, Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. The purpose of the new facility is to enhance Ocado’s flexibility to support its UK expansion.
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Law firm scams – run by non-lawyer scam artists – are being set up to fleece “clients” using websites stolen from legitimate law firms. The picture above purports to be a London, UK law firm – Dovernor – but it is in fact an image taken from a legitimate US law firm using a picture
Personal injury lawyer Alan Bacon runs personal injury claims for UK law firm BTMK Solicitors and writes about the ‘factory processes’ controlling the personal injury business, which has undermined consumer confidence in personal injury litigation. It appears that a number of firms have entered the ‘under settlement market’ or are gearing up to do so,
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Scottish law firm Harper MacLeod has done a deal with a private client specialist Bird Semple that will lead to considerable expansion in turnover for the law firm which will have one of the largest private client practices in Scotland. Bird Semple, which can trace its roots back to 1845 and has its main office
Media titan Rupert Murdoch may have his hands full with his Time Warner deal, but it hasn’t stopped his British newspapers taking their revenge on Rolf Harris’s media lawyers who tried to keep the jailed entertainer’s name from them when questioned over sex assault issues by the police. The media specialist law firm Harbottle &
UK justice minister Chris Grayling has received a judicial slapping and been prevented from turning legal aid into “an instrument of discrimination” today, after three judges found his reforms to be unlawful. In a devastating judgement which could bring the residency test requirements to a halt, the judges found the lord chancellor had radically overstepped
Privacy issues and the law have intersected so many times, particularly with social media’s impact on court reporting, that rulings over the media’s reporting of private disputes like divorce cases have become common. But the recent case of a UK hedge fund tycoon who sought to prevent the publication of Britain’s richest divorce case has
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Australian-born entertainer Rolf Harris faces the rest of his life in prison following his conviction on 12 counts of indecently assaulting four girls in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in a dramatic trial that showed how the entertainer used his celebrity status to protect himself from action over his often brazen sexual assaults. One of the victims was
Too many lawyers? It’s a question that’s asked with increasing frequency and in the UK, where there are around 200,000 lawyers, being one in 300 in the population, there are surplus lawyers in numbers that may number tens of thousands. The Guardian reports on a legal recruiter, Samuel Clague, who has set up a legal
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War crimes are being committed by Al Qaeda-spawned fighters and from ISIS militants on an industrial scale, according to reports emerging from war-ravaged Iraq. UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay has expressed his “extreme alarm” at the reports and images of everything from summary executions, to rapes, kidnappings and wholesale slaughter occurring in
