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Only months after the Coalition Government raised some civil court fees by 600 per cent, justice minister Shailesh Vara MP has announced that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has begun another consultation to increase court fees afresh. | 11yrs

Indian law firms are looking out for new opportunities to expand, with some attracted to the prospect of linking up with a global law firm. | 11yrs

On July 20 2015, the EEOC issued a statement announcing the federal appeals court's decision to dismiss Abercrombie & Fitch's appeal of the EEOC's religious discrimination case. | 11yrs

Charles Russell Speechlys has reported increased revenues and profits during it first year of merger. | 11yrs

Law firms could have to pay contract lawyers overtime for basic document review work after a New York court ruled against Skadden Arps and legal staffing firm Tower Legal Services. | 11yrs

Freshfields is understood to be making waves in Manchester by offering salaries to paralegals that are 27 per cent above the market rate, as it staffs up to open its new administration centre there this summer. | 11yrs

A growing conundrum for top in-house lawyers at luxury brand businesses is that while their legal teams are generally fairly small, workloads have increased dramatically over recent years. Jonathan Ames reports from the Luxury Law Summit. | 11yrs

After five months of deliberation, seven Supreme Court Judges have handed down the much anticipated 3rd Judgment in Coventry v Lawrence, providing certainty to recovering litigation costs. | 11yrs

LVMH is attempting to grow its media empire with the purchase of French daily newspaper Le Parisien. The group already owns the business daily Les Echos. | 11yrs

Bulgari is stepping further into the hotel industry. The Italian jeweller has reached agreement with Dubai developer Meraas Holding to build a luxury resort on Jumeirah Bay Island. | 11yrs

The Italian firm's US office will be headed up by resident partner Yan Pecoraro. | 11yrs

Leading offshore law firm Appleby acted as Bermuda counsel for Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited (CTEI) in the spin-off and listing of CTEI on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. | 11yrs

Alongside the creation of a £20m R&D fund, the UK government has published a set of guidelines to cover the training requirements for test drivers, rules on safety and other issues. | 11yrs

A lawyer in New Zealand has said that the behaviour of employees 'even if they are on their own time' will be taken into account by employers - referring to a case in which two government workers were recently suspended in relation to a video. | 11yrs

L'Oreal's former head patent lawyer Steven Trzaska is suing the beauty company, which he alleges fired him because he refused to file applications that were not patentable. | 11yrs

Americans and Japanese spend the most on luxury goods, with the aspirational consumers taking the lead. | 11yrs

Richemont chairman Johann Rupert has reportedly invited LVMH and Kering to join the luxury retail website that will be formed by the merger of Yoox and Net-a-Porter. | 11yrs

A new study from OHIM, the EU's intellectual property agency, shows that the sale of fake clothes, shoes and accessories in the EU equals nearly 10 per cent of the total sales in the sector throughout the EU-28. | 11yrs

The software company provides document management services to many of the top players in the legal marketplace. | 11yrs