By: Maria Ward-Brennan

Professional Services Editor Maria Ward-Brennan is the Professional Services Editor at City AM, focused on law, Big Four, and other management and accounting consulting firms. She edits the Beyond The Billable newsletter and column. She was previously a litigation reporter at The Lawyer. Contact her via email at maria.ward-brennan@cityam.com or on X @MariaW_B.

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MoJ brings forward litigation funding Bill to green light the multi-billion pound industry

March 21, 2024

The UK government has introduced a litigation funding bill this week, that if passed, will reverse a ruling by the Supreme Court last year. Last July, the Supreme Court in the so-called PACCAR case handed down a decision that left the litigation funding sector in a state of confusion. The highest court in the UK [...]
“Fundamentally unfair”: The BBC Licence Fee prosecutions hitting the vulnerable hardest

March 21, 2024

Cases of vulnerable individuals being prosecuted for not paying their TV licence has led to calls for a fast-track justice procedure to be scrapped.
Every Lidl helps: Tesco loses appeal in supermarket logo war

March 19, 2024

Lidl went on to sue Tesco, which is Britain's biggest supermarket, as it used a blue square with a yellow circle with its name inside for its well-known logo.
Landmark judicial review starts as Albania’s ex-PM tries to overturn UK Home Office ban

March 19, 2024

The politician was banned by the Home Secretary, then Priti Patel, from entering the UK in 2022 on the grounds of alleged criminality and corruption.
KPMG UK re-elects chief ahead of ‘some big changes’

March 18, 2024

The UK arm of Big Four firm has re-elected Jon Holt to serve a second term as the firm’s chief executive.
UK consultancy market expected to flatline in 2024, after a dive in growth last year

March 18, 2024

The UK’s consulting market grew by 4.7 per cent across 2023 to revenues of £15.2bn, which was down on the 15.6 per cent growth recorded over 2022.
London Market insurers seeking to relocate an aviation case to war-torn Ukraine

March 18, 2024

The companies have had several aircraft damaged or destroyed in Dnipro International Airport and Boryspil International Airport following missile attacks as a result of the war.
Brew by Numbers, Black Sheep and Brick Brewery, spike in brewery collapses shakes sector

March 18, 2024

According to data by accounting firm Mazars, last year (ending December 31), 69 UK breweries went insolvent, up from 38 a record for 2022.
Silk gowns, big wigs and steel buckles shoes: Ceremony set to welcome 95 new King’s Counsel

March 16, 2024

The KC title is one of the highest honours a lawyer can attain and has been in practice since 1597 after Queen Elizabeth I awarded the first batch of Queen Counsels.
WH Smith finance chief set to retire as senior figure at Burberry picked as replacement for role

March 15, 2024

WH Smith has announced that its chief financial officer, after more than two decades at the business, is set to leave the business, to be replaced by a senior member of high-fashion Burberry. Robert Moorhead, the current CFO and chief operating officer of WH Smith, will retire from the business. He joined the company in [...]

Post Office weighs bid for ATM operator in cashpoint expansion

Former Wasserman talent agency set for second rebrand after Ghislaine Maxwell scandal

Cloth Cornhill review: A London icon returns – and it’s fabulous

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