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Legal Innovation. Are You Ready To Play Musical Chairs?
David Kinnear is a Barrister and Mediator. He is also CEO and Publisher of High Performance Counsel (HPC), tracking the evolution of the modern legal industry. He can always be reached via email at dkinnear@hipcounsel.com. As kids we used to play musical chairs at birthday parties and church socials more...
2020: ARE YOU READY FOR THE STORM IN THE LEGAL INDUSTRY? AGILITY AND FLEXIBILITY WILL BE ESSENTIAL TO SURVIVAL
David Kinnear is a Barrister and Mediator. He is also CEO and Publisher of High Performance Counsel (HPC), tracking the evolution of the modern legal industry. He can always be reached via email at dkinnear@hipcounsel.com. Note: This Op Ed. first appeared in High Performance Counsel (HPC) Magazine more...
Several high-profile celebrities, including Alexa Chung and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, have recently agreed to change their approach to social media advertising after pressure from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). While celebrity endorsements on social media remain an extremely popular more...
In a judgment handed down today in the air cargo cartel damages litigation, the Court of Appeal (Master of the Rolls; Flaux and Bean LJJ) has held that the national court did not have jurisdiction to award damages for a contravention of what is now Article 101 TFEU in relation to collusion on more...
A long running challenge to a search warrant obtained by the competition regulator reached its conclusion in the High Court this month. Jason Beer QC and Charlotte Ventham appeared (with Rob Williams of Monckton Chambers) for the CMA. In October 2017, the CMA obtained a warrant to enter and search more...
The Competition and Markets Authority is due to begin an in-depth market investigation into the UK funeral sector in the New Year. This will involve a detailed review and scrutiny of the sector and include many of its key players. On 29 November 2018, the CMA announced in an interim report a number more...
Today, in proceedings brought by the CMA, the High Court (Mr Justice Nugee) has made an enforcement order under sections 217 and 219A of the Enterprise Act 2002 against viagogo, the operator of a secondary ticketing platform. The Court had been due to hear an application by the CMA for an interim more...
The High Court has held that, where a trader acts misleadingly during a test purchase by a local trading standards officer, it breaches consumer protection law, even if the officer is not acting as a consumer within the meaning of the relevant legislation: Warwickshire County Council v Halfords more...
The recently launched Chambers Bar UK 2019 ranks 50 individual Monckton barristers across 18 practice areas with many appearing in multiple categories. Monckton Chambers is one of the most highly ranked sets in the UK as it has been recommended in eleven practice areas; in five of these, Monckton is more...
In the recently launched The Legal 500 UK Bar 2018, 44 individual barristers from Monckton Chambers are listed across18 practice areas with many recommended in multiple categories. Monckton Chambers has been recommended, once again, as a TOP-TIER set in the following practice areas: Competition more...
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