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Liverpool's former owners head for High Court in takeover damages bid

Liverpool FC's former owners are set for a return to the High Court in the latest twist in the long-running saga over the takeover of the football club. US businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who are being represented by City firm Peters & Peters and Paul Girolami QC of Maitland Chambers, are due to return to the High Court on 9-10 February next year. Hicks and Gillett are seeking to overturn an anti-suit injunction granted by Mr Justice Floyd in the High Court on 14 October, which dismissed a restraining order taken out in Texas by the pair to block the sale of the club.
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Tribunal overrules unfair dismissal claims for fixed-share partners

Fixed-share partners are unable to bring unfair dismissal claims, according to a recent ruling in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT). The tribunal this month upheld an earlier ruling that claimant Martin Tiffin, formerly of Bournemouth-based law firm Lester Aldridge, was classified as a partner of the firm and not an employee, and was therefore unable to claim unfair dismissal.
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The future of the Bar: A profession reborn for today

Complacency is not, and never has been, an option. The market for the supply of legal services moves constantly, quickly and is ever more demanding. Stand still and the Bar will be left behind. Embrace change and modernisation and it will flourish. Complacency and smugness have from time to time been jibes directed at the Bar, and, in particular, at the Chancery and commercial Bars. Old-fashioned is another claim; old-fashioned, that is, in the law applied, in the premises from which the Bar operates, in the organisation of the way in which chambers are managed and in the manner in which it provides its services.
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The future of the Bar: Inner court to outer reaches

The modern day barrister is as likely to be boarding an aeroplane at Heathrow to represent a client in the Middle East or the Caribbean as he or she is to be catching the Eurostar to appear in the European Court of Justice, or indeed walking down to the local courts to appear as an advocate in a trial in England and Wales. Similarly, a barrister advising his or her client as to the risks involved in a proposed business endeavour, or in relation to a child abduction case, is as likely to be providing that advice in a conference in London or Cardiff, be sending the advice by email or participating in a video link-up with Moscow or Singapore.
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Clydes partner lands new role as Middle East litigation chief for Al Tamimi

Middle East firm Al Tamimi & Company has recruited a Clyde & Co City partner as its new regional head of arbitration. Litigation partner Paul Turner is set to join the UAE firm in January 2011, and will take responsibility for the dispute resolution practice across Al Tamimi's 10 offices. At Clydes he specialises in major cross-border disputes across the Middle East, with a focus on Iraq, Iran and Libya.
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Bar Council takes on solicitors for local authority instructions

The Bar Council is ramping up efforts to compete directly against solicitors as it attempts to encourage local authorities to hire barristers directly. Bar Council chairman Nicholas Green QC has held talks with around 10 local authorities to discuss tender processes for large contract work, with Green wanting to encourage local authorities to look beyond law firms and discuss with chambers how they can better compete.
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Barlows and Withers advise on Dentons lawsuit against former India chief

Legacy Denton Wilde Sapte and Travelers have launched a claim against the former head of Dentons' India group in a bid to reclaim £779,000 worth of costs stemming from a 2009 court case. The law firm and the insurer are suing Gauri Advani, who was a defendant alongside Dentons in a case brought by two of her former clients, in which Advani was alleged to have committed bribery.
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Herbert Smith to open Belfast office to handle disputes document review

Herbert Smith is set to launch a new base in Belfast to handle volume disputes work. The office, which will open in April 2011, will principally focus on reviewing and analysing large volumes of documents from major contentious work, notably in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations. The Belfast base, which will be wholly owned and controlled by Herbert Smith, will be led on the ground by London-based Libby Jackson, a solicitor currently in a practice management role, who will relocate to Northern Ireland in early 2011.
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US-style success fees - a controversy waiting to happen

How do you float a policy that can be so easily caricatured as bringing US litigation culture to these shores without an almighty row breaking out? Well, the coalition Government, having been lent a helping hand by Lord Justice Jackson's report on civil litigation costs and the state of the public finances, has found the answer - announcing the measure as part of reforms that will yank hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money out of the justice system. In delivering policy, as ever, it's all about the mood music.
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A vision for the future: the Bar in 10 years' time

There comes a point when change is swirling around with such force that the only thing to do is to stand back and look beyond the storm. This has been my reaction to the crisis in public affairs which has beset Government as a result of the recession and growth in public debt. This impacts prejudicially not only upon legal aid spend but also on the private sector which, directly and indirectly, is hit by the contraction in the purchase of goods and services.
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