Pressure is increasing on the government to consider a wealth tax to fund public spending once the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic reveals itself.
A pattern of racialised institutional abuse and brutality in America has led to growing calls to “defund the police”.
Two large associations of arbitrators, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), are offering a new Pandemic Business Dispute Resolution Service for commercial claims worth between £5,000 and £250,000.
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has tasked a group of City executives with reframing the UK’s corporate governance agenda.
High ranking government officials are said to support a change in the Sunday trading laws which would allow shops to stay open more than six hours on Sundays. The aim of this legislation is to encourage consumption and economic growth.
The Law Society and academics from University College London (UCL) have suggested that any reform of the legal services regulation should be paused, whilst the legal profession tries to recover from the effects of the current global pandemic.
With no choice but to work from home (WFH), many legal professionals are finding that the new normal is not only manageable, but actually a means to better productivity and a healthier work-life balance.
The current coronavirus test and trace app developed by the NHS is being scrapped in favour of a model based on technology designed by industry giants Apple and Google.
According to a recent study, law firms feel that the undergraduate law degree does not equip students with the skills required to be a lawyer in today’s legal profession, namely attention to detail, resilience and commercial awareness.
The UK’s three biggest airlines, British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair, have filed a High Court action for judicial review against the government over the introduction of its 14-day post-travel quarantine policy.