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Private equity - the challenges
5/03/2007
There has been a cacophony of noise around the private equity industry over the last couple of weeks. Last week the industry met for some concerted soul-searching in Frankfurt at the Super Return conference. The quality of debate and thinking...We all pay the price of fraud
9/03/2007
Having been asked to join Legal Village as a blogger, I thought the breakfast seminar on fraud which I spoke at on Wednesday is as good a place to start as any. The Attorney General, the Association of British Insurers...Civil court funding: pay as you go?
12/03/2007
The Government has been contemplating for some time the introduction of hourly trial fees as part of its broader aim to make the civil court system self-funding.Despite the idea having been hugely unpopular when last raised in a public consultation...A whole world of opportunity
13/03/2007
International work is quite a big part of being President of the Law Society. However, it’s mostly not about the glamour and more about hard work – albeit work that is immensely rewarding and, so it seems, delivering real results.I...Lawyers can be friends of the earth
16/03/2007
I’ve discovered only recently – and to my personal benefit – that lawyers don’t have to cost the earth. But it did take me a while to get there.My generation regarded material consumption as a right, not a privilege. Now I’m...Pomp and circumstance in the City
26/03/2007
Last Friday, when most of you were working, I was in St Paul’s helping to represent the City Solicitors Company at the United Guilds Service.This is an occasion of total civic pomp. The cathedral is packed with liverymen in full...Government must clean up money laundering rules
27/03/2007
It’s difficult for me not to shudder a little on hearing a mention of the Government’s dreaded draft money laundering regulations. They could not only impose significant extra costs on solicitors for compliance but also reduce the competitiveness of UK...
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