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Murray Stable’s Ian Truscott QC has ‘extensive experience in employment matters’ and ‘a willingness to think creatively’. Donald Cameron’s ‘approachable and knowledgeable style’ makes an excellent impression on clients.

At Hastie Stable, the ‘consistently impressive’ Brian Napier QC is ‘great at thoughtfully presenting complex issues to the court’.

At Terra Firma Chambers, Peter Grant-Hutchison’s ‘extensive and commanding knowledge of his subject’ is appreciated, as is the ‘alternative approach he brings to cases’.

Westwater Advocates’ Alice Stobart is ‘a collaborative advocate’ who is ‘straightforward to deal with and extremely direct with her presentation of a case’. Juliette Casey is also recommended.

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Getting the breaks

Shook, Hardy & Bacon currently authors the Insurance section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- Falcon Chambers
Product liability and dietary supplements

Shook, Hardy & Bacon currently authors the Insurance section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- Shook, Hardy & Bacon International LLP
The calm before  the storm: are  you prepared for  a dawn raid?

WilmerHale currently authors the Fraud and Corporate Crime section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- WilmerHale
International shipment of waste: transporters beware

Burges Salmon LLP currently authors the Environment and Energy section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here

- Burges Salmon LLP
Revisiting Bartoline

Macfarlanes LLP currently authors the Litigation & Dispute Resolution section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- Macfarlanes
Rent in administration proceedings: a headache for landlords

Druces currently authors the Insolvency and corporate restructuring section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- Druces
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day

Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP currently authors the EU & Competition section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- Arnold & Porter (UK) LLP
Court of Appeal provides useful guidance on the  test for remoteness  of damages for  breach o

Edwards Wildman Palmer UK LLP currently authors the Contract section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here .

- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Unsafe products:  identifying serious risks and notifying the relevant authorities

Shook, Hardy & Bacon currently authors the Insurance section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here . In the event that a safety problem is identified with one of your products, you will need to undertake a risk assessment to comply with the General Product Safety Directive.

- Shook, Hardy & Bacon International LLP
Supreme Court provides guidance  on forum conveniens and piercing the corporate veil 

Macfarlanes LLP currently authors the Litigation & Dispute Resolution section of The In-House Lawyer magazine. For more information and articles from this author click here . This article considers the Supreme Court decision in VTB Capital plc v Nutritek International Corp & or s [2013]. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the case is that it casts doubt on the notion that the Court has the power to pierce the corporate veil. The Supreme Court also held that, even if the power to pierce the corporate veil does exist, it does not enable a claimant to hold parties that control a company jointly and severally liable under contracts entered into by that company.  

- Macfarlanes

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Bedell Trust appoints experienced Trust Practitioner in London

We are delighted to announce the appointment of William McGilivray , who joins our London office as a Director within Bedell Trust and adds further to our global expertise.

- Bedell Cristin
Bedell advise AXA Real Estate on CISX listed UK REIT for £472m Ropemaker Place Acquisition

Bedell Channel Islands Limited and Bedell Cristin advised AXA Real Estate Investment Managers (AXA Real Estate) on the recently completed £472m acquisition of Ropemaker Place in the City of London from British Land.

- Bedell Cristin
Clinical negligence 'rising star' joins Penningtons' Cambridge team

Penningtons Solicitors LLP is delighted to announce the appointment of Guy Forster as an associate in its nationally recognised specialist clinical negligence team. Guy has moved from Irwin Mitchell in Birmingham to head the clinical negligence team in Penningtons’ Cambridge office.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Penningtons teams up with Innotech to support UK technology sector

Penningtons Solicitors LLP is sponsoring the Innotech Summit 2013, one of the UK’s leading technology business events. Taking place at Level39 in Canary Wharf on Friday 26 April, this year’s event aims to provide a platform to connect investors, tech entrepreneurs and game changing technologies in order to help develop tech start ups throughout the country.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Penningtons named in Top 25 Most Admired Companies list

Penningtons Solicitors LLP has been recognised as one of an elite group of businesses in the private client profession by Private Client Practitioner magazine.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Penningtons advises on sale of WG Healthcare to US market leader

Penningtons has acted for the shareholders of WG Healthcare UK Limited on the sale of part of the business to Wright Medical Technology, Inc, a US headquartered global orthopaedic medical device company listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Penningtons secures further Solicitors Regulation Authority panel role

Penningtons Solicitors LLP's professional regulation team has been reappointed to the panel of law firms selected by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to advise on disciplinary proceedings and regulatory appeals following a formal tender process.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Ex-Stringfellows dancer set to appeal Court of Appeal Judgment

Nadine Quashie, a former dancer with Stringfellow Restaurants Limited is set to appeal today’s Court of Appeal decision which reverses the Employment Appeal Tribunal finding where Ms Quashie had won her legal battle for employment rights.

- Bindmans LLP
New partner for Penningtons’ Cambridge office further strengthens technology capability

Penningtons Solicitors LLP has welcomed Hamish Corner as a new partner in its Cambridge office. Hamish joins from the London office of Charles Russell LLP, where he was a member of the intellectual property group and head of the IT and e-commerce group. His appointment reflects Penningtons’ commitment to the rapid growth of its Cambridge office, which now has five partners following the arrival of Helen Drayton from Hewitsons LLP in the summer.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Asian workers allege discrimination, harassment and victimisation at Great Western Hospital

A group of 49 GMB members, from the Housekeeping Department of Great Western Hospital in Swindon, have instructed their lawyers, Bindmans LLP, to pursue claims in the Employment Tribunal amid allegations of race and religious discrimination, harassment and victimisation for trade union membership and whistle blowing by their employer Carillion Services Ltd.

- Bindmans LLP

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Product liability and dietary supplements

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International shipment of waste: transporters beware

Revisiting Bartoline

Rent in administration proceedings: a headache for landlords

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day

Court of Appeal provides useful guidance on the  test for remoteness  of damages for  breach o

Unsafe products:  identifying serious risks and notifying the relevant authorities

Supreme Court provides guidance  on forum conveniens and piercing the corporate veil

Press Releases in the UK

Bedell Trust appoints experienced Trust Practitioner in London

Bedell advise AXA Real Estate on CISX listed UK REIT for £472m Ropemaker Place Acquisition

Clinical negligence 'rising star' joins Penningtons' Cambridge team

Penningtons teams up with Innotech to support UK technology sector

Penningtons named in Top 25 Most Admired Companies list

Penningtons advises on sale of WG Healthcare to US market leader

Penningtons secures further Solicitors Regulation Authority panel role

Ex-Stringfellows dancer set to appeal Court of Appeal Judgment

New partner for Penningtons’ Cambridge office further strengthens technology capability

Asian workers allege discrimination, harassment and victimisation at Great Western Hospital