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Freshfields faces £68m claim over Department for Transport advice

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is facing a potential negligence claim worth more than £68m from the Department for Transport (DfT) for advice it gave the organisation in 2006 in relation to a rail franchise agreement with Stagecoach South Western Trains (SSWT)...
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Bluechip employment lawyers welcome reforms to work disputes but few expect claims to fall

Wide-ranging employment shake up may cut red tape but advisers doubt core reform claims. Sofia Lind reports
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Watch and wait - White & Case on deferred prosecution agreements

White & Case's Alistair Graham says that while deferred prosecution agreements may add to the armoury of UK prosecutors, companies may need greater certainty as to their use before they will self-report
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Check, and check again - why the Bribery Act and competition law could be a lethal combination

Sullivan & Cromwell's Juan Rodriguez and Louise Delahunty warn the Bribery Act and competition law could prove a lethal combination for companies with poor compliance
6 minute read

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Proposed bill gives lenders' rights in the real estate sector platform for discussion

"The Bill is intended 'to re-balance the law in favour of enterprise'..." Mayer Brown's Jayne Backett and Shaeron Yapp on a private member's bill of interest to the banking sector
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Missing the mark? - The Government's overhaul of the UK's competition regime

The Government tells us that the UK has a "world-class" competition regime. It is hard to know exactly what this means, but the underlying sentiment is clear: the UK regime is one of the best in the world at protecting and encouraging competition. Now we are told that it needs to get better still.
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On the bonfire - moves to burn up the UK's competition regime divide lawyers

It looks like it's almost a done deal. Among antitrust advisers, the expectation is that it is only a matter of time before the Government makes good on its proposal to merge the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with the Competition Commission (CC).
21 minute read

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Might wasn't right - 9/11's lasting legal legacy

It was probably inevitable from the moment the two aeroplanes struck the Twin Towers a decade ago that the world was about to face a period in which the competing interests of security and liberty – two issues that go to the heart of the law's role in society – would come into prolonged conflict. The former of these interests was dominant in the five years after the attacks as the US and UK pushed on with a legally controversial conflict and ushered in a series of aggressive anti-terrorism measures. In the process, the US often sought to recast terrorism in legal terms applied to war rather than criminal procedures.
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After the impact - how 9/11 is still affecting the legal market

Just days after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, then Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor kept a longstanding commitment to help dedicate a new building at New York University (NYU) School of Law. She visited Ground Zero first and told her NYU audience: "I am still tearful from that glimpse." O'Connor went on to predict: "The trauma that our nation suffered will and already has altered our way of life, and it will cause us to re-examine some of our laws pertaining to criminal surveillance, wiretapping, immigration and so on… As a result, we are likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country."
7 minute read

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Weightmans wins new client mandate for regional NHS Trust

Weightmans has won The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust as a new client for its healthcare and corporate practices. The firm won the Trust as a new client through a competitive tender process carried out under a new framework agreement.
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