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Law firm’s Moscow office breached sanctions
A branch of law firm Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has been fined for breaches of UK financial sanctions on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine
21 March 2025
Expect permanent disruption to cross-border deals, warns report
Cross-border deals are becoming more uncertain, costly and challenging for senior in-house counsel at major multinationals.
19 February 2025
UK sanctions: public officials & control Premium Content
Vivien Davies, Galiya Martirosova & Krysteen Ormond ask: do we have all the guidance we need?
15 March 2024 / Krysteen Ormond / Galiya Martirosova / Vivien Davies
NLJ this week: Sanctions, designated persons and establishing ‘control’

What is the meaning of ‘control’ in the context of international sanctions? Who exercises it? How do we interpret it?

15 March 2024
More Russia sanctions—but are they effective?
The Foreign Office has imposed a further 50 sanctions against individuals and businesses connected to Russian president Vladimir Putin or which act as sources of Russian revenue
23 February 2024
Compliance crucial after rise in Hamas and Russia sanctions
Co-ordinated sanctions against key figures involved in financing Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) were imposed this week by the UK, US and Australia
26 January 2024
Breach of new Russia sanctions ‘career-ending’ for lawyers
UK lawyers have been blocked from advising Russian companies in trade deals between global corporations, international money lending transactions and other business deals.
05 July 2023
New wave of Russian sanctions announced
A further 86 individuals and entities have been sanctioned by the UK.
24 May 2023
Record numbers of Russian litigants in commercial courts
A record number of Russian litigants appeared in the London Commercial Courts last year, despite the war in Ukraine and sanctions.
10 May 2023
Russian state assets: a question of trust? Premium Content
Philip Munro & Phineas Hirsch examine the proposed use of a trust in relation to international sanctions laws, & the issues that a trustee might face
05 May 2023 / Philip Munro / Phineas Hirsch
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Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

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Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

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Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

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NLJ this week: When bots libel
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
NLJ this week: A point not pleaded
The High Court has upheld a rare successful serious-irregularity challenge after an arbitrator relied on an implied term neither party had advanced
NLJ this week: Prophecy meets practice
Thirty years after The Future of Law shook a profession still using fax machines, its central forecast looks increasingly less like prophecy and more like description
Law Society RFC Festival of Sport 2026 ‘Wrap-Up’
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
NLJ this week: Part-time protection widens
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
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