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The Transfer Window: recent moves including White & Case, Stephenson Harwood and A&O

US firm Goodwin Procter has added a fifth partner to its London office with the hire of Allen & Overy (A&O) tax counsel Ben Eaton. Eaton, whose tax practice focuses on investment funds and real estate transactions, also has broad tax experience of private equity, infrastructure and renewables, debt, hedge funds and real estate.
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Offshore firm Conyers names new leadership as long-serving chair retires

Offshore firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has appointed Narinder Hargun and David Lamb as its new co-chairs. Both Hargun and Lamb, whose roles took effect on Friday (16 November), succeed long-serving chairman John Collis at the Bermuda-based firm.
2 minute read

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Potential successors emerge as Lord Chief Justice confirms retirement

Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has announced he will retire next September, with his replacement set to be named in early 2013. The announcement was made today (21 November) after Judge wrote to the Lord Chancellor informing him of his decision.
2 minute read

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Hong Kong's foreign judges in focus amid calls for Chinese nationals

Foreign judges in Hong Kong have come under scrutiny after a mainland China scholar argued that all judges in the region's top court should be local experts. The comments by Tsinghua University professor Cheng Jie, as reported by the South China Morning Post, included the assertion that Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal was not just a court for Hong Kong but also "a national court", and as such that all judges should be Chinese nationals, or at least have Hong Kong permanent residency.
3 minute read

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Top arbitrators reject China work as low rates prompt quality concerns

Low rates of pay to arbitrators in China are forcing top lawyers to reject work or spend a limited amount of time on cases, according to practitioners in the market. International and Chinese arbitrators working in the country typically receive substantially less pay than in other jurisdictions, raising concerns over the quality of awards handed down as top arbitrators shy away from appointments.
4 minute read

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SFO faces £3m legal bill over Tchenguiz probe

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) must pay up to £3m in legal costs over its failed investigation into businessmen Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, a court has ordered. Lord Justice Thomas, the President of the Queen's Bench, and Mr Justice Silber, ruled at the High Court that the SFO's handling of the investigation into the brothers during a probe into the collapse of Kaupthing Bank was unlawful.
3 minute read

International Edition

A war on Judicial Review?

The Prime Minister is to "get a grip" on people forcing unnecessary delays to Government policy by cracking down on the "massive growth industry" of Judicial Review. David Cameron told business leaders today:
6 minute read

International Edition

MoJ plans for judicial review reform face sceptical response from lawyers

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is to reform the judicial review process in an attempt to reduce the number of "weak or ill-conceived cases" the Government says are clogging up courts, with the news greeted with a sceptical response from the legal profession. In today's announcement, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "Judicial Review is an important way to hold authorities to account and ensure decisions are lawful. However there has been a huge growth in the use of judicial review, far beyond what was originally intended.
5 minute read

International Edition

First among equals: Stars at the Bar 2012

Ben Rigby profiles the 10 most acclaimed young commercial advocates making their mark in a fiercely competitive arena...
21 minute read

International Edition

The Burberry Bar – how the Bar should market itself

Legal Week's editor in chief Alex Novarese argues that the Bar should ditch the dogma and focus on its past to reposition chambers as tightly focused providers of top-quality legal services...
6 minute read

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