Television dramas have long had a fascination with the legal world. From Rumpole of the Bailey and Kavanagh QC to Silk, The Split, and perhaps most memorably This Life, the profession is often portrayed as a chaotic cocktail of high-stakes cases, late nights, tortured personal relationships, and constant ethical dilemmas. These portrayals capture the emotional intensity that legal work can ...
The number of high-earning women in the UK has risen to a record 284,000, according to new analysis by Bowmore Wealth Group. The figure — covering the year to 31 March 2025 — represents a 12% increase from 254,000 the previous year and means women now make up 26% of top-rate taxpayers, up from 25% last year and 24% the ...
President Donald Trump shot down speculation that he would run as a vice presidential candidate in 2028, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that Republicans already have ‘great’ prospective candidates. Trump made the statement during a gaggle with reporters on Sunday, brushing off questions about whether he would fully pursue such an option. Trump pointed to Vice President JD Vance ...
President Donald Trump said he’d be willing to extend his trip abroad to Asia if North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to meet with him. ‘But I’d love to meet with him if he’d like to meet. I got along great with Kim Jong Un. I liked him, he liked me,’ Trump said during a gaggle on Air Force One. ...
Hensol Castle Distillery has announced a series of record-breaking achievements for the first six months of its financial year, underscoring its growing status as one of Wales’s most successful spirits producers. The business achieved an AA grade in its latest BRCGS re-audit — the highest possible certification — recognising world-class standards in product safety, quality and traceability. The distillery also ...
Natural Resources Wales (NRW), a Welsh government-sponsored body, has paid a £14.6 million settlement to HMRC after admitting to historic non-compliance with the UK’s IR35 off-payroll working rules. The settlement, which includes a £2.9 million penalty (suspended for 12 months), stems from errors in determining the employment status of contractors engaged between 2017 and recent years. NRW confirmed it had ...
Apple has lost a major competition case in the UK after the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled that the company abused its dominant position in the digital app marketplace by overcharging millions of iPhone and iPad users for apps and in-app purchases. The tribunal found in favour of Dr Rachael Kent, a senior lecturer at King’s College London, who brought ...
eBay UK has unveiled the winners of its 2025 eBay Top Seller Awards, celebrating the small businesses and entrepreneurs powering the UK’s growth story across fashion, technology, sustainability and community enterprise. Now in its ninth year, the awards honour outstanding independent retailers and innovators trading on eBay’s marketplace, highlighting their impact on both the domestic economy and global exports. With ...
Scottish finance expert Craig Alexander Rattray has called for stronger government protections for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involved in legal disputes with large corporations, following his own trademark battle with billion-dollar accounting firm Xero. Rattray, founder of the financial education programme Know Your Numbers®, claims that Xero’s use of a name “strikingly similar” to his registered trademark has exposed ...
In a political environment where little is agreed upon, there stands one exception: China. That country is cited by nearly every national security expert as the No. 1 geopolitical threat to the U.S. The question is how to coexist without being codependent, how to compete without conflict, and how to protect American producers and consumers while China plays by its ...