Rahul Batra of Hudson McKenzie details the changes. The written ministerial statement laid in the House of Commons on 16 October 2014 by James Brokenshire, Minister of State for Immigration and Security, and in the House of Lords by Lord Bates, outlined a number of changes to the UK Immigration Rules. Tier 1 (Investor) Category …
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Baker Tilly’s George Bull sets the scene for change. Visiting clients in Chicago a few years ago, I saw in bright lights the title of a show at one of the city’s theatres: The Male Intellect: an oxymoron? When I returned to the UK, my wife had only one question: ‘Why the question mark?’ So …
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Menu Leader Overview: Down in albion Midlands: The middle of somewhere North East: Work to rule North West: Not so grim Northern Ireland: Northern Exposure Scotland: Scotland the brave South West: Bristol Fashion Wales: Back to basics Yorkshire: No quarter asked
Leader Overview: Down in albion Midlands: The middle of somewhere North East: Work to rule North West: Not so grim Northern Ireland: Northern Exposure Scotland: Scotland the brave South West: Bristol Fashion Wales: Back to basics Yorkshire: No quarter asked
If you were to venture outside London to the major regional legal markets ten or 15 years ago, you would probably have been surprised. The energy, ambition and cohesive professional communities in these markets went well beyond expectations. In the bars of Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester you would often meet individuals with that mix of …
Ian Mason and Rob Martin of Thomson Reuters explore the new KM landscape. What is knowledge management? In its early days, some may have viewed knowledge management (KM) as a dry, back-office function. It was often confined to the law library (and predominantly practised there, away from the fee-earning frontline). Lawyers kept their precedents safely …
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Andrei Gusev of Borenius looks at the effects of the latest EU/US measures. There was a lot of speculation, stress and tension among foreign investors in Russia when the EU, the US and several other countries imposed their two latest rounds of sanctions against Russia, leading to Russia responding with its own counter-sanctions, including the …
Michael Kyprianou’s Christos Galanos looks at recent caselaw. The availability of interim relief is often crucial in ensuring satisfaction of any final court judgment or arbitral award. An interim injunction can ensure that property is not alienated while a case is still pending. In other cases it can level the playing field if one party …
YUST’s Evgeny Zhilin outlines the benefits. 2014 has brought many challenges to the Russian economy. The already modest growth rates that were demonstrated in the previous year were targeted even more by various sanctions imposed against Russia by the US, EU and some other jurisdictions. As a reaction to these, Russia has installed counter-sanctions in …
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