Liz Truss may have wanted to abolish it but most will agree the Supreme Court has done an excellent job in its relatively short lifetime of deciding some of the biggest legal issues of our day. Early high-profile cases dealt with the law on pre-nups, assisted suicide and Julian Assange’s treatment, in contrast to a preponderance of tax law […]

Yesterday’s BBC Today programme interview, in which a former Harrods employee detailed calmly, but chillingly, her terrible experiences of sexual abuse at the hands of Mohammed Al-Fayed, took me back.  In the late 80s, I did a management training contract at Harrods and was occasionally tasked with manning the reception of Al-Fayed’s private office on […]

Is it fair for an investor’s political views to impact on a company’s brand? That’s the question raised by the news that Gail’s, the bakery bellwether of gentrification, has been boycotted by activist residents of Walthamstow, seemingly partially due to the fact of Gail’s minority investor’s views on Brexit and Covid lockdowns. Like it or not, we are living in an increasingly polarised world.  […]

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike more than lived up to its name last Friday, sparking global chaos when a faulty Windows system update hit millions of businesses and individuals in seemingly the biggest IT outage in history. From airlines to banks, the NHS to media groups, supermarkets to train operators, few were immune from the “Blue Screen […]

The nation’s newspapers are traditionally a key battleground where an election can be lost or won. But to what extent has this significance waned following the rise of #social #media? The Sun’s “Time for a new manager” headline today only reflects the result we are all expecting. This time round it won’t be ‘The Sun […]

An interesting little gem concerning employment tribunals almost passed me by – yet in many cases its implementation has the potential for considerable impact on both claimants and respondents from early next year (unless of course a new government puts paid to the currently suggested timetable). Historically, responsibility for procedural rules within employment tribunals has […]

Even though votes are yet to be cast, the country appears to believe that the election is a run race and that the only question around Starmer’s rise to PM is the size of majority he will secure for Labour. Starmer’s steady hand has yet to waiver while it seems soggy Sunak has little chance of […]

As election campaign launches go, it was hardly the most auspicious start.Drowned out by torrential rain and the Labour 1997 campaign anthem, D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better (cue myriad weather-related memes and media headlines), the optics were less than optimal, Rishi Sunak’s speech barely audible. The overall impression was one of poor judgment and largely avoidable […]

Bell Yard Director Louise Beeson reviews the past year in the world of legal PR and looks ahead to 2024 in the below article for Law360. — As we approach the year end, many law firms and public relations teams will be reviewing their external communications output for 2023: Which campaigns broke through, which legal […]