More than four-fifths of Londoners want to get back to working from the office, the highest such proportion in the UK, City A.M. can reveal. According to new statistics from IT provider Atlas Cloud, residents of the capital are the keenest in the country to get back to office life, above an average of 74 per cent across the whole of the country. Read more: The return to work: Here’s when City firms are going back to the office In part, this might be because London employers are gaining the equivalent 25 days of extra work a year from staff, […]

Global Energy Horizons Corp (GEHC) an alternative energy corporation headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada has won a significant Judgment against The Winros Partnership (formerly Rosenblatt Solicitors) a City of London based law firm. GEHC’s claims are related to the legality and enforceability of three Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) alongside several misconduct allegations against Rosenblatt. A CFA  is a contingency agreement between a law firm and its client whereby the law firm assumes the costs of pursuing a litigation for a reward that could amount to 100% of its customary fee. The case considered GEHC’s claim that all three CFAs entered into with Rosenblatt were unenforceable, and in…

Downing Street has refused to call for more people to return to their offices, despite increasing fears that decreased foot traffic in central London will cripple the economy. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said today that it was up to individual employers to decide whether to bring back employees, while also refusing to say if Boris Johnson supports growing calls for people to return to work. Read more: Matt Hancock: There’s one big reason it’s safe to return to the office When pushed specifically on whether Johnson supported City of London workers returning to the office, the spokesman said it […]

The service of court proceedings on defendants continues to be a breeding ground for disputes. It is crucial that the proceedings (i.e. the claim form and the particulars of claim) are brought to the attention of the defendants in a particular way and within a particular timeframe. The Civil Procedure Rules deal with the permitted modes of service. Sending by first class post to the defendant’s address is usually sufficient, but there’s plenty of room for error, so be careful! Advice should always be sought to avoid falling into any of the potential traps. Service by email and flexibility if […]

Despite a tentative easing of the national lockdown, the lingering economic and social consequences of this policy are frighteningly obvious to anyone venturing into central London. While social life and economic activity has, to a large extent, returned to the outer zones and suburbs, the offices and shops of London’s professional districts remain eerily and worryingly quiet. Newly pedestrianised streets may be tempting some customers back to the pubs, cafes and restaurants of Zone One. But welcome as this is, it amounts to a mere trickle in place of what was previously a mighty tide of people coming in and […]

COVID-19 has turned our day-to-day lives upside down, as we have all had to adapt to a ‘new normal’, and the world of litigation has been no different. From virtual court hearings, to electronic intimation, we have witnessed a move away from some of the traditional practices that have characterised our Scottish court system but how will these changes impact Scottish litigation in the future? Service and Intimation Are the days of serving a court document via post or by personal service (by Messengers-at-Arms or Sheriff Officers) gone? The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 has, amongst other things, permitted service and […]

Image copyright Getty Images One in three UK employers expect to make staff redundant between July and September, a survey suggests. The research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and recruiter Adecco shows a 50% jump in the number of employers expecting to cut jobs compared to three months ago. In the private sector, 38% of firms plan to make redundancies, compared to 16% in the public sector. Firms with plans to hire rose – but numbers were down on past years. ‘Sombre autumn’ There have been an increasing number of job cuts as the coronavirus pandemic […]

Intercontinental Hotels and Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group expected to be latest firms to warn of job losses as Britain reels from fallout of coronavirus The UK has haemorrhaged more than 134,000 jobs since March  The pandemic is also hammering restaurants, with some 22,000 jobs in the sector have been shed this year  By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50, 9 August 2020 | Updated: 00:06, 10 August 2020 Holiday Inn owner Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group are expected to be the latest firms to warn of job losses this week as Britain reels from […]