Profession

Colin Hulme, Head of IP at Burness Paull, considers the impact of ESG programmes on the observance of copyright by corporates

Michael Zander on why barristers have the legal right to ask to see the accounts

Bravery is the key to ensuring you don’t end up daubed in greenwash, says Andrew Magowan

Iain Miller & Charlotte Judd mull some tough ethical dilemmas

Fluent Japanese speaker, Yorkshire-born Nick Emmerson has been inaugurated as the Law Society’s 179th president

Client confidentiality is generally seen as absolute with very limited exceptions, but tough ethical dilemmas can still arise, as Iain Miller, partner, & Charlotte Judd, senior associate, Kingsley Napley discuss in this week’s NLJ, complete with some alarming examples

The litigation funding industry had a shock when the Supreme Court delivered its ruling in PACCAR Inc v Competition Appeal Tribunal. But what’s the extent of the damage?

Barristers have a legal right to see the accounts of their Inns of Court, Professor Michael Zander asserts in this week’s NLJ. He believes this is the legal situation, and would like to hear from anyone at the Bar or the Inns who may know about an 1871 pleadings, Roffey v Wigg, which never came to judgment, as this will help solve the mystery

It is ‘a matter of fundamental principle’ that individuals can ‘readily understand what goes on in our courts and tribunals’, Lady Chief Justice Carr has said in her inaugural speech

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the third best employer for working families in the UK, while Pinsent Masons took seventh place