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3 Key Online Resources to Enhance Your Legal Studies

6th September 2018
As a law student you probably need all the help you can get, and online resources can more than often be your best assets. Below Emma Jones, lecturer in law and member of the Open Justice team at the Open University, lists three key online resources you can turn to. It wasn’t so long ago […]
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Law Firms Need to Consider Alternative Finance Streams to Plug Funding Gap

5th September 2018
A recent survey by MHA, the national association of independent accountancy firms we are a member of, revealed that total external funding per equity partner in small and mid-sized practices decreased significantly in 2017, ranging from £42,000 in the smallest firms to £228,000 in the largest, compared with £156,000 to £506,000 last year. While reducing […]
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Women Could Earn +£26,000 More If They Study Law

5th September 2018
Going to university should mean you earn more over your lifetime. But how much difference does the choice of university make? Well, this has been calculated* for the first time by the Institute for Fiscal Studies as evidenced by a new tool launched by the BBC. It is data from this tool theknowledgeacademy.com analysed to […]
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How Do Implying Terms Work in Contracts?

4th September 2018
The law of implied terms allows the court to imply a term into a contract to cover a situation which has not expressly been provided for in writing. In this article Ioannis Alexopoulos, Partner, and Jessica Thomas, Associate at Signature Litigation, consider the recent case of Robert Bou-Simon v BGC Brokers LP[1] which warned against […]
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What Is the Price of Low-Wage Migration After Brexit?

4th September 2018
If the Government wants to use migration to fill unattractive jobs after Brexit, preventing exploitation will be a major challenge, according to a new report by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford. The report Exploiting the opportunity? Low-skilled work migration after Brexit considers the Government’s options for providing low-skilled migrant labour in the […]
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Net Neutrality: What’s It All About?

3rd September 2018
Net neutrality is the principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) treat all internet data equally and do not discriminate or charge differently depending on the user, content, website, platform, application or method of communication. Below Andrew Jerrard, Solicitor in Commercial Services at Coffin Mew, explains for Lawyer Monthly.   The principle is intended to stop […]
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Trump Calls for Fairness, Not Regulation on Google

3rd September 2018
When asked about additional regulation for Google on Aug. 29, President Trump said “we’re just going to see” before adding he wanted to see “fairness” on the platform.
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Talking in your Tweets: Client Confidentiality in the Age of Social Media and Beyond

31st August 2018
The information age is in full bloom. People live their lives on social media. They post all of their life’s experiences in the open society for all to see. The impulse is compelling, and many succumb to the lure without giving it a second thought. And lawyers are no different. Below Mark Fulks of Baker […]
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ESMA to Renew Prohibition on Binary Options for a Further 3 Months

30th August 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients, in effect since 2 July, from 2 October 2018 for a further three-month period. ESMA has also agreed on the exclusion of a limited number of products from the scope […]
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EU Net Migration Halves Since Referendum

30th August 2018
Total EU net migration to the UK has more than halved since the referendum and the estimate of net migration of citizens from Poland and other A8 countries was negative for the first time since the expansion of the EU, latest data from the Office for National Statistics has shown. A8 net migration to the […]
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