From exploiting Spongebob Squarepants to Kermit the Frog and making Grumpy Cat one of the richest cats after she earned $100 million in around two years, memes have taken the internet by a storm. By being “an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other […]
Criminal law is no easy path. Often needing thick skin, to be street smart and work long, tiring hours, criminal law is no longer as appealing to young lawyers, according to Mark Dooley, Partner and Section Head of the Criminal Department at Oxley and Coward Solicitors LLP. He gives inside information on what it is […]
Brazil is a country that, naturally, undergoes a constant process of updating itself. We embrace this view. Augusto Neves Dal Pozzo expects that Brazil will flourish in terms of national and international investments in infrastructure in the years to come, and that in addition to meeting the needs of the population in sanitation, urban mobility […]
Five months after General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) officially came into effect, and as news breaks that Facebook has been fined the maximum data breach penalty for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Barrister-at Law Quentin Hunt has been examining the implications of early test cases under the regulations – and reporting on what this might mean […]
Yesterday UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond made a number of announcements and updates in the Autumn Budget 2018. You can see all things Autumn Budget and several summaries on the BBC website here. In our most in depth Your Thoughts piece to date, Lawyer Monthly rounds up the country’s leading experts in a variety of sectors, […]
With ongoing discussions around the Cypriot failure to tackle money laundering and economic crime, global banking expert Robert Lyddon discusses US efforts to force the island to improve its policies. On June 14th 2018 the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) sent a circular to all Cyprus’ banks enjoining them to better and more complete Due […]
The government would say it’s ‘not’, but ask any family practitioner undertaking publicly funded work and you will get a very different response. This is what Shiva Ancliffe, a specialist family law practitioner at Coram Chambers, believes, as she provides the Bar Council with her own personal opinions on justice in the UK family system. […]
A new Bellwether discussion paper titled ‘A dangerous allegiance to the status quo?’ published by LexisNexis UK, highlights the very real concerns of small and independent Law firms around the forthcoming Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) reforms. The LexisNexis Bellwether Research found that 57% of respondents were simply unaware that the SRA is proposing regulatory changes […]
There is a growing ‘sex-for-rent’ scandal currently brewing in the UK and beyond. Increasingly depressing is the proliferation and normalisation of this in many circles. Expert Housing and social welfare barrister Nicholas Nicol from One Pump Court provides Lawyer Monthly his take on the issue. On 10th September 2018 an investigation by the BBC programme […]
The SEC announced last week that it has brought fraud charges against Tesla CEO Elon Musk over his tweets on August 7th claiming that he had secured funding to take the automaker private. The SEC’s action has already led to a steep drop in Tesla stock. For some thoughts on what the SEC’s action means […]
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