Legal News

The Federal Republic of Nigeria has won its High Court challenge against an $11bn arbitration award granted to Process & Industrial Developments (PID), a hedge fund-backed company registered in the British Virgin Islands

Hodge Jones & Allen has set up a free personal injury legal advice service with Nottingham Law School's on-campus teaching law firm, NLS Legal

MPs are to investigate the use of pre-recorded cross-examination

A kitemarking scheme could be set up for barristers’ chambers, under proposals floated in a Bar Standards Board (BSB) ‘consultation on the regulation of barristers in chambers’ this week. The BSB also proposes making its assessments of individual chambers public

An ‘unsuccessful, widely-reported prosecution’ proved to be ‘an unbeatable marketing tool’ for D H Lawrence novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In this week’s NLJ, freelance feature writer William Gibson revisits the notorious trial

Former JUSTICE director Roger Smith hunts out the serious points among the ‘tittle tattle’ of former prisons minister Rory Stewart’s heavily promoted book, in his NLJ column this week

This week, Michell de Kluyver, Nichola Peters & Harriet Territt, global investigations practice, Addleshaw Goddard, look at the potential introduction of ‘senior manager attribution liability’. As the authors explain, this is a ‘new breed’ of corporate criminal liability, and a definite ‘game changer’

Former district judge Stephen Gold is on form in this week’s Civil way, literally as well as figuratively, as he reports on updates to’N181’ as a result of the fixed recoverable costs reforms

The ‘return’ of a cheque posed a conundrum for the courts in a recent case about the return of a tenant’s deposit on a rented flat. In this week’s NLJ, Edward Blakeney and Fern Schofield, barristers at Falcon Chambers, examine the case along with the ‘surprisingly knotty problem of returning tenancy deposits by cheque and the surprisingly limited amount of authority on this question’

Red Lion Chambers barrister Jonathan Fisher KC has been appointed by the Ministry of Justice to lead an independent review into the disclosure regime and fraud offences