The Home Office has rejected new advice published in a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights that proposes a 28-day limit on immigration detention to prevent the current system from being “slow, unfair and expensive”.
BT has announced the firm will be exclusively focusing on full-fibre broadband across the UK. They have sold their legal software division in a ‘national mission’ to provide Britain ultra-fast broadband.
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm by number of lawyers, has launched a risk consulting business to provide advisory, assurance and remediation services to its clients.
The number of tourists visiting the UK is at an all-time high! The travel data firm, ForeKeys credits this rise to the weakness of the pound.
Tesco, Britain’s largest private sector employer, has announced 4,500 job cuts in an overhaul of its Metro stores. Shares in the company fell nearly 2% following the announcement in what is a further blow to the retail industry and the high-street.
The pound fell against major world currencies on the 6th August following ‘no deal’ and recession fears.
Earlier this month, it was ruled that those involved in the song “Dark Horse” owe 22.5% of its profits to Flame, the not-so-famous singer of “Joyful Noise”, for the similarities in their songs.
In January of this year the magic circle law firm Linklaters launched their Ideas Pathway platform. It has seen 38 new ideas be implemented to date and 17 more in the evaluation stage of development which are all sourced from various employees throughout the firm.
International firm Simmons & Simmons have announced the acquisition of Wavelength, the first regulated legal engineering firm in the world.
Harbour has become the first company in the litigation financing sector to offer a training contract, promising hopeful graduates commercial work including drafting purchase & settlement deeds and analysing potential claims.