The Law Commission has stated that electronic signatures have legal force to execute contracts, as long as the usual rules and formalities are met.
Law firms are moving away from the traditional partnership model, as 47% of law firms in the UK are now incorporated businesses. This is up from 32% five years ago.
Eversheds Sutherland is currently hosting a month-long training program to improve its lawyers’ confidence in the IT tools developed and adopted by the firm over the last few years.
On the 29th August, UK’s financial regulators brought down the shutters on Britain’s costliest ever consumer scandal.
Recent data shows that the average pay of a FTSE 100 CEO dropped by 13%, but at £3.4 million this is still 117 times larger than the median UK worker.
Telecoms operators will be given enhanced rights to upgrade their equipment to improve 5G services and mobile coverage.
James Watt, head of the craft brewery BrewDog, is mulling over issuing a £10 million bond that will offer investors annual payment in beer and well as financial returns, with a coupon “50% in beer and 50% in cash”.
Fibre broadband providers Talktalk and Vodafone have launched an appeal in the Competition Appeal Tribunal against Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. The appeal concerns Ofcom’s decision to soften regulatory controls in London of Openreach, a functional division of BT.
Italy’s 66th post-war government (since 1945) collapsed after only 14 months in power.
Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP), one of the UK’s largest financial consultancy firms, is looking to bid £200m in a takeover of Big Four auditor KMPG’s pensions advisory division.