Young’s pubs boss Patrick Dardis: “Smithfields is the new Covent Garden” November 16, 2017 Pub company Young’s has announced a deal to buy City favourite Smith’s of Smithfield and its sister site on Cannon Street. The acquisition was confirmed as the group reported a market-beating rise in sales across its pubs. The figures Revenue across managed pubs, which accounts for the biggest chunk of the business, was up 4.6 [...]
Trump lets loose and revives travel ban from Muslim countries, just hours after withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement June 2, 2017 President Donald Trump clearly got a taste for shaking things up yesterday, as he turned to the Supreme Court to reinstate his ill-fated travel ban just hours after withdrawing the US from a historic climate change agreement. The Trump administration last night filed an appeal to the highest court in the country, asking the nine [...]
The new Brexit Wars episode is out: May the force be with you December 17, 2018 Maybe it’s just me, but the Stormtroopers in the new Star Wars movies never seem to have the same menace as the old ones. Last week, Jacob Rees-Mogg and his colleagues in the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) of the Conservative party looked like they believed that they had gone old-school – Empire Strikes Back. [...]
Last Week in the City: England has an 8.5% chance of winning the World Cup May 18, 2018 Garry White, chief investment commentator, looks at the market-moving events that have shaped the UK equity markets this week (14 to 18 May 2018). UBS has used its City analysts’ predictive firepower to try and work out the winner of the upcoming World Cup in Russia – and England came surprisingly high in its league [...]
Why is Pakistan struggling to find its feet as a successful emerging market? December 18, 2017 The key dilemmas facing Pakistan’s equity market — a small investor base, few new listings on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), and shrinking turnover — are tied to the lack of trust among investors and issuers as well as unnecessary compliance and tax burdens. It will take greater professionalism among the intermediaries and the rationalization [...]
Pirate Bay case: EU court (CJEU) delivers unsurprising verdict that pirate video hosting platforms may be illegal June 14, 2017 An EU court may have won itself an eye roll and a slow-clap from non-lawyers today by declaring what seems obvious: that hosting platforms which share pirated videos are probably illegal. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) was looking into a case which concerned The Pirate Bay, an online platform which allowed [...]
Judges need to work on boosting their public image, says justice secretary Liz Truss, warning they’ll be in the spotlight even more post-Brexit March 19, 2017 The justice secretary today called on the judiciary to do more to boost its public image, warning it will face more scrutiny once the European Court of Justice is no longer the top court post-Brexit. Liz Truss told the Financial Times the Supreme Court would face "even greater attention" once the UK was no longer [...]
Expats told they cannot appeal to Supreme Court for right to vote in EU referendum May 24, 2016 Two British expats have today been blocked from appealing to the Supreme Court over their right to vote in the upcoming EU referendum, on the grounds that there is no basis in law for them to do so. In April, the High Court decided that expats who have lived outside of the UK for more than 15 years should not be allowed [...]
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Article 127 case (but were too afraid to ask) February 1, 2017 Brexit's legal fine print is due to be debated in the courts again this week, less than a fortnight after the Supreme Court ruled the government must consult parliament before it can trigger Article 50. At time of writing, a case on Article 127 is due to go for a merit hearing on Friday afternoon, [...]
Save the date: Article 50 decision due on 24 January January 18, 2017 Mark it up in your diary: The Supreme Court will deliver its judgment in the Article 50 decision on the morning of 24 January. The Brexit case was heard by all 11 Supreme Court justices last month, after the government appealed a November decision from a trio of High Court judges, who ruled the government could [...]