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City Spy: Hong Kong's cashback deal

13.09.11
While Britain debates the rights and wrongs of the 50p tax rate, Hong Kong is giving away cash... more

Apprentice star’s law firm drops to bottom of City equality league

03.11.10
London law firm that produced Margaret Mountford — one of Britain’s best known women solicitors and Alan Sugar’s former aide on The Apprentice — has fallen to the bottom of the City’s equality league table... more

Qataris have sticky time while judge struggles to tell ancient from modern

28.05.10
On Property: The most interesting question in the Candy brothers' Chelsea Barracks case against the Qataris was not a legal one... more

City Spy: How sweet! Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld’s $26m pay day

06.04.10
City Spy is wondering quite what “exceptional leadership” Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld showed to earn a 41% pay rise to $26.3 million... more

Lovells ready to merge with top US law firm

29.10.09
City law firm Lovells is reportedly on the verge of merging with top US law firm Hogan & Hartson ... more

Judges reject cleared man's fight to sue 'rape victim' for £300,000

23.10.09
Three senior judges have rejected an attempt by an alleged rapist to win £300,000 damages from his victim... more

Lovells eyes global top 10 spot with US tie-up

09.10.09
City law firm Lovells is in talks to merge with US group Hogan & Hartson ... more

City Spy: Shockwaves due from Bear Stearns

27.07.09
Eyebrows were raised when Prince Andrew's one-time friend, billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, was released six months early from his 18-month prison sentence in Florida for procuring underage girls ... more

Mumbai law: 1,000 City staff 'will lose jobs' as legal work goes to India

13.07.09
More than a thousand London lawyers could be made redundant by the end of the year because their jobs will be outsourced to India... more

House building at all-time low as property sales stagnate

27.01.09
Private home building in London is grinding to a halt, figures reveal... more

Battle lines are drawn up as recession bolsters corruption

13.01.09
Legal analysis: More cases of corruption are likely as a result of the recession, according to the Director of Public Prosecutions... more

How lawyers could boost earnings by taking share of any damages payout

09.12.08
Analysis: Both consumers and businesses could be worse off under plans to reform the civil claims system, according to a City solicitor... more

New era for banking as bosses quit

14.10.08
Scotland's two leading banks announced that their chairmen and chief executives would be standing down as part of the Government's extraordinary bailout deal... more

Mack the Knife must be cut to the quick

23.09.08
It can’t be much fun being John Mack at the moment. The famously aggressive boss of Morgan Stanley — “There’s blood in the water, let’s go kill,” is one of his exhortations — is clearly struggling to come to terms with the dire situation that confronts him... more

Dangers of betting the whole bank on property

19.09.08
Peter Bill considers the effect of the turmoil in the financial markets on the property... more

Growth pledge Darling would like to forget

02.09.08
While Alistair Darling’s interview for The Guardian was candid about the economy, his Budget speech in March — only four months ago, let us not forget — was decidedly less so... more

Top judge backs investors who fund court cases for a slice of winnings

06.05.08
Litigation funding should be encouraged so long as it is controlled, according to England's senior civil judge... more

EU crackdown on price-fixing is too soft to make a difference in UK

15.04.08
The EU's Competition Commissioner's new proposals lack bite... more


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