Ben Rigby
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London International Disputes Week poised for record delegate attendance
Conference starts today (3 June) and will feature headliners including Lady Chief Justice Carr and ICSID’s Meg Kinnear
Axiom Ince collapse fuels threefold hike in compensation fund levy
Regulator says proposed payment increases down to sharp rise in interventions
Tributes pour in for former leader of the Law Society of Scotland’s in-house lawyers group
Janet Hood, a Scottish licensing specialist, died suddenly last week
Seladore Legal taps BonelliErede for international arbitration partner
Laurence Shore will join the London disputes specialist in September
Litigation funding is vital but niche provider of legal services, major study finds
Report commissioned by Legal Services Board reveals that funders back 3-5% of potential cases
Arbitration and litigation funding legislation falls as UK heads to the polls
Laws clamping down on power of Big Tech and exonerating victims of Post Office Horizon scandal rushed through
London’s Commercial Court sees rise in international litigants despite sharp fall in number of Russians
Study finds decline in Russian litigants is offset by record numbers of Swiss and UAE users
Mishcon de Reya’s international arbitration head to join Littleton Chambers in London
Arbitration solicitor-silk Louis Flannery KC to move across in August and be called to the Bar
Kirsty Brimelow KC elected to join first all-women Bar Council leadership team
Doughty Street silk will serve as 2025 vice chair alongside the next chair, Barbara Mills KC, and treasurer Lucinda Orr
Browne Jacobson adds five-strong tech and commercial team from EY Law in London
New team is led by partners Rowan Armstrong and Alex Mason
Memorial service announced for international ‘legal ambassador’ Stephen Denyer
Ceremony at London’s Temple Church to be held in honour of former director of strategic relationships at Law Society of England and Wales
Brick Court Chambers investigating ‘potential cyber incident’
Top commercial set said to have been targeted by Medusa cyber gang
Hausfeld doubles down on antitrust with hires in London, Germany
Joanna Christoforou joins from Morgan Lewis & Bockius’s London office as René Galle moves over in Hamburg from A&O Shearman
McDermott swoops for MoFo leveraged finance duo in London
Partners Chris Kandel and John Burge join as US firm continues London hiring spree
Matrix boosts antitrust practice with competition law specialist from St. John’s Chambers
Ex-Burges Salmon partner Matthew O’Regan is the latest former solicitor to join Matrix’s competition team
Judicial Appointments Commission names trio of new commissioners
Old Bailey judge Angela Rafferty KC appointed alongside in-house solicitor Nicolina Andall and leading public junior Tom Cross to select future judges
Fountain Court’s Matthew Gearing KC becomes first former solicitor called to Singapore Bar
The former A&O partner joins KCs Toby Landau, Sapna Jhangiani and Jern-Fei Ng as UK appointments to the Law Society of Singapore
McDermott Will & Emery refreshes London leadership team
Aymen Mahmoud to replace Hamid Yunis as London managing partner, with Graham White named senior partner
The Post Office scandal’s far-reaching impact on litigation funding
Third-party funding’s role helping to expose a widespread miscarriage of justice has put it under unprecedented political scrutiny, report Ben Rigby and John Malpas
Gillard and Goldsmith join speaker line-up for London International Disputes Week
Former Australian prime minister and UK secretary general will discuss state-related dispute resolution at June event