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  • Bankruptcy expert achieves PhD
    We are thrilled to announce that John Tribe,  Kingston Law School’s resident insolvency expert, LLB Course Director and KPMG Principal Lecturer in Restructuring; has been awarded his PhD from University College London.  John’s dissertation is titled “Debtor Treatment Themes in Personal Bankruptcy Policy Development from the Early-modern period to the Present Day - Plus ça change (plus c'est la meme chose)”
  • "Mind the Gap, Prime Minister" - Kingston law student meets David Cameron on the London underground
    Travelling on the London Underground is, for some, just another part of daily life. It’s never a particularly exciting time, spent as it is perusing the pages of whatever free newspaper happens to have been abandoned nearby. For first year student, Shingirai Kaserera, however, ‘just another trip on the tube’ in October 2011 was transformed into something more exciting by him sharing his carriage with the Prime Minister, David Cameron.
  • Students excel in Skills competitions
    The in-house skills competitions over the last week of January drew in an impressive number of first year mooting teams  with eight managed to make it to the starting line on Saturday morning. This is the largest first year turn out we have ever had and bodes well for the next few years and our continued involvement with the full range of professional legal skills, mooting, client interviewing, negotiation and mediation. As always, we had a large number of recent ex-students coming back to act as judges for us.
  • Kingston team in the Hult Global Challenge - Update
    Update - Many thanks to all those of you who have voted and supported our team. They will now represent Kingston University at a global platform. Rachel Scotland, Dasha Brezinova, Holly Phillips and Juliet Koteng  from Kingston Business School  have now made it to the  finals  of the Hult Global Case Challenge that will be in New York  end of next month.
  • Don't get mad, get mediation - free University and Metropolitan Police service for Kingston residents
    Do you know someone who is arguing with their neighbour about the position of a fence, parking spaces or noisy pets? Perhaps you've heard of a family dispute about money lent and not returned?  Whatever the cause of the argument, a newly-expanded free mediation service from Kingston University in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police in Kingston could help provide the answers.

Upcoming Events

  • Postgraduate Open Day

    30 June 2012 - 10:30am - 1:00pm N/A New Kingston Business School Building, Kingston Hill Campus
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Legal Week News

The latest stories from Legal Week.

  • SRA agrees to scrap minimum trainee salary in favour of £6 per hour
    legalweek The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is set to abolish the minimum wage requirement for trainee solicitors in favour of the national minimum wage of £6.08 per hour. The change, which was voted in today (16 May) by the SRA board, will come into effect from 1 August 2014. After that date, employers will only be required to pay trainees the main rate for employees under the national minimum wage regulations.
  • News International accounts reveal multimillion-pound hacking legal fees
    legalweek News International (NI) has spent more than £53m on its investigation into phone-hacking at the company since last summer, with the majority used to pay legal and professional fees. The figure is contained within NI’s accounts, recently filed on Companies House, which detail the company's expenses during the 10 months since the closure of the News of the World.
  • Travers promotes eight to partner including one part-time lawyer
    legalweek Travers Smith has announced its annual partner promotions with eight new lawyers added to the top rank, including the promotion of a part-time lawyer for the second consecutive year. The round will see seven lawyers added to the firm’s partnership in London, with one associate made up in Travers’ sole international base in Paris.
  • Covington continues to build London white-collar crime team with new lateral hire
    legalweek Covington & Burling has made a second consecutive anti-corruption lateral hire in London, with Steptoe & Johnson partner David Lorello joining the US firm this week (15 May). Lorello, who made partner at Steptoe in 2010, is US-qualified and focuses on US, UK and European regulatory issues.
  • Covington continues City white-collar crime hiring with new lateral
    legalweek Covington & Burling has made a second consecutive anti-corruption lateral hire in London, with Steptoe & Johnson partner David Lorello joining the US firm this week (15 May). Lorello, who made partner at Steptoe in 2010, is US-qualified and focuses on US, UK and European regulatory issues.