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 was previously a litigation reporter at The Lawyer. Contact her via email at maria.ward-brennan@cityam.com or X (Twitter) @MariaW_B.

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Clifford Chance: Magic Circle law firm set to monitor lawyers office attendance

January 26, 2024

Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance are set to watch their lawyers office days by monitoring their attendance, but the firm has a more liberal hybrid policy compared to others. The firm introduced a hybrid working policy in 2021 which requires staff to be in the office for 50 per cent of their time, which [...]
Competition watchdog launches formal probe of Vodafone and Three tie-up

January 26, 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a formal investigation into the merger of Vodafone and Three. Back last June, Vodafone and CK Hutchinson, owner of Three, announced their long-awaited UK £15bn merger. The deal would combine the companies’ telecommunications operations under one single network provider. The CMA today has started its Phase 1 [...]
Russian-born billionaire and former F1 boss tops the richest tax list

January 26, 2024

A Moscow-born billionaire and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone topped this year’s Times tax list, but not for the same reasons.
Baroness Michelle Mone assets worth £75m frozen by a court order

January 26, 2024

The order was consented to by Mone and Barrowman and followed by an application by the Crown Prosecution Service under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
WWE’s Vincent McMahon hit with sex trafficking lawsuit in US

January 26, 2024

WWE’s billionaire founder and executive chairman Vincent McMahon was hit with a lawsuit in the US accusing him of sex trafficking. A former employee at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Janel Grant, has accused wrestler of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as trafficking in a lawsuit filed on Thursday at the District Court for [...]
Wayne Barnes sets his focus on the law after he blows the whistle on refereeing

January 26, 2024

Former rugby ref Wayne Barnes has traded the laws of the game for the laws of the land as he heads into practice full-time
UK government’s onshore wind snub faces legal threats

January 25, 2024

If the government had defined it, it would have allowed applications for new onshore wind projects to be fast-tracked through the planning system.
Bitcoin on trial in London: ‘Inventor’ offers settlement weeks before court battle

January 25, 2024

The self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin has issued a settlement offer to all parties ahead of an upcoming London High Court case that will decide on the creator of the first ever cryptocurrency. Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright has long claimed to be behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the name used by the person who [...]
Post Office told the government it would oppose appeals of Horizon scandal victims

January 25, 2024

The Post Office told the Government it would oppose appeals of half of the convicted sub-postmasters, days before PM announced a new law to exonerate victims. It was revealed by the Financial Times that ministers were privately told by the Post Office that they believed that in 333 cases, non-Horizon evidence supported the convictions. The [...]
No cloudy business: Aldi did not infringe Thatchers’ trademark over lemon cider

January 24, 2024

Aldi did not infringe on Thatchers’ trademark with its cider lemon drink, a judge ruled today, bringing a sigh of relief to the low-cost supermarket’s busy legal team. The English cider brand launched legal action against Aldi back in September 2022 over its cloudy lemon cider. Thatchers called on South West law firm Stephens Scown [...]

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