1. Magna Carta was NOT signed. 2. It did NOT prevent King John from ‘exploiting his power’ 3. It did NOT establish that ‘everybody’ was subject to ‘equality under the law’.

Teaching young lawyers how to run deals in 2023.

A new £5K British investment ISA you say? Here are the last 10 year returns of the FTSE (14.53%) compared to the S&P500 (170.42%). No thanks. #Budget2024

This sounds transformative but has little effect in practice. You never have only one client to serve each day. You will always have at least four or five live matters, and often across different clients and time zones. There is no work/life balance in M&A.

When payment by card is instantaneous there should be no reason why a refund to a card takes 3-5 working days.

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Book reviews by Yuan Yi Zhu are one of my guilty pleasures. This one is well worth five minutes of your day.

Merryn Somerset Webb The answer is quite simple. You cannot switch lawyers around on corporate deals. The continual read-in time and administration involved in having multiple lawyers on each deal would be hugely inefficient and expensive both for the firm and the clients.

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Everyone who refers to Magna Carta on X needs to know these eight facts: (1) The ‘Carta’ (as King John called it) or the ‘Charter of Liberties’ (as others called it) was sealed (not signed) by King John in June 1215 and repealed by Innocent III in August 1215. Everyone now