GLOBAL
Litigation funding is becoming a mainstream asset class with the market set to double in the next five years, predicts Dilip N Massand of Legal Ventures...
22 Mar 2019
UNITED KINGDOM
Hallmark International, which conducts business in the United Kingdom with branches in Europe, Africa and Russia, has merged their complete operations with Europlaw Group (UK) Limited...
Europlaw 19 Feb 2019
SOUTH AFRICA
"Blessed are the cheesemakers", runs the famous line from the Monty Python film Life of Brian. But a recent court case gives the lie to the notion that manufacturers of cheese have fortune on their side...
Estelle Derclaye 22 Jan 2019
SOUTH AFRICA
Bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, sponsorship and open display in shops in the UK encouraged tobacco companies to make the pack the hero. So they opposed plain packaging and claimed there was no evidence...
Nathan Critchlow and Danielle Mitchell 4 Jan 2019
SOUTH AFRICA
France recently passed an amendment to its Agriculture Bill. It prohibits any product that is largely based on non-animal ingredients from being labelled like a traditional animal product...
Malte B. Rödl 1 Jun 2018
UNITED KINGDOM
Thousands of British Volkswagen car owners took their compensation battle to London's High Court on Tuesday over the emissions-cheating "dieselgate" scandal that has plagued the German carmaker...
28 Mar 2018
UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, UK: Britain's competition regulator provisionally ruled Tuesday that a planned takeover of pan-European satellite TV giant Sky by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox entertainment group was "not in the public interest"...
24 Jan 2018
SOUTH AFRICA
British American Tobacco is being investigated for possible fraud regarding company activities in Africa, it announced on Tuesday...
3 Aug 2017
UNITED KINGDOM
Former Barclays chief executive John Varley appeared in a London court on Monday over fraud accusations, the first time a boss of a global bank has faced charges arising from the 2008 financial crisis...
5 Jul 2017
GLOBAL
Britain's Daily Mail newspaper apologised to US First Lady Melania Trump and agreed to pay her damages over an article that included allegations that she worked as an escort in the 1990s. ..
18 Apr 2017
