Chancery Lane Chats
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -The Montfort Communications team explore how reputation management plays a crucial part in determining who is the ‘right winner’ or the ‘wronged loser’ in high profile litigation. Chancery Lane Chats features interviews with leading lawyers, journalists and business leaders who have found themselves at the centre of a dispute. They all have one thing in common: a perspective which can deliver insights into why litigation communication matters. Tune in to our office on the junction where Fleet Street and Chancery Lane meet in the heart of London, as we explore the intersection of law, journalism and crisis management.
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Judge Rob Rinder and Jeremy Brier on the Importance of Legal Aid
December 14, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 101 MBJeremy is a leading Senior Junior at the Commercial Bar and is a member of Essex Court Chambers. He specialises in complex and heavy commercial litigation, including insurance, banking and funds, all aspects of commercial fraud, shipping, and international arbitration. In 2020, Jeremy was the lead Junior for Arch in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch, the test case on business interruption losses resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Since 2018, he has also sat as a Recorder of the ...
Clarissa Coleman & David Speakman of DAC Beachcroft On The Changing Role of Investigations Lawyers
November 23, 2021 18:00 - 27 minutes - 64 MBClarissa Coleman moved straight into litigation on qualifying. As well as several other positions, she spent 2 years in-house as Head of Litigation at Consensus Business Group (CBG), the property investment firm owned by businessman Vincent Tchenguiz. Today she’s a partner in the Complex Commercial Litigation and Disputes group at DAC Beachcroft’s London office. “Litigation is different. It's a different mindset. It's about clients and people and every case is different. The facts ...
Tracy Alexander on the Current State of UK Forensic Services
September 29, 2021 00:45 - 33 minutes - 76.2 MBTracy Alexander is the Director of Forensic Services for the City of London police. Tracy has worked in forensic science for 29 years, 17 years of which were spent within the Directorate of Forensic Services at New Scotland Yard, as Crime Scene Manager for the Homicide Command, and latterly as Head of Forensic Intelligence. Tracy is an advisory panel member and trustee of Inside Justice, a fellow of King's College London, and the current president of the British Academy of Forensi...
Jasper Helder on Navigating the Enterprise Act 2002 and the National Security and Investment Act 2021
September 09, 2021 03:00 - 30 minutes - 70.6 MBJasper Helder is a senior partner at Akin Gump, and one of the most experienced and well named professionals advising on national security, trade policy and export controls issues in the country. In light of a number of recent controversies around the takeover of British companies, Jasper joined Kiran to discuss the 2002 Enterprise Act, and the forthcoming National Security and Investment Act, which is coming into force in January 2022. What the Enterprise Act 2002 was meant to d...
Bringing Court Dress into the 21st Century
August 25, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 69.9 MBKarlia Lykourgou is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. She was called to the bar in 2013 and specialises in criminal defence cases. However, in 2020, she founded Ivy & Normanton, the first legal outfitter specialising in legal attire for women. “The struggle that women experience is different to the struggle that men can experience in the same industry. And I want to celebrate our contribution and assist those who don't come from the backgrounds that are traditional to the ba...
Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe On Policing And The Media
August 09, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes - 80 MBLord Bernard Hogan-Howe is the former Commissioner for the Metropolitan Police. Currently he’s an adviser to the Financial Crime department at city law firm Rosenblatt. What you might not know is that he has made an arrest at every single rank, has ridden a horse at the Grand National, and has ridden a police horse at every London football ground during his term. The relationship between the police and the media Lord Hogan-Howe began his illustrious career with the South Y...
David Marchant of OffshoreAlert On Life As An Investigative Journalist
July 26, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 84.7 MBDavid Marchant is an investigative journalist, the founder and editor of OffshoreAlert, the leading online news portal for insolvencies, disputes and other problems in high value cross border finance. He started his career working for the Gwent Gazette before leaving Britain for sunnier climes. “It was a great grounding as a young journalist. But within six years I was living in Bermuda, which had zero unemployment and was a microcosm of capitalism.” He initially took a job wit...
Susan Dunn On Pioneering Litigation Funding In The UK
July 12, 2021 20:00 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBSusan Dunn, the founder of Harbour Litigation Funding, is one of the most experienced and well-known professionals in the global litigation funding sector, in particular, for pioneering the way for litigation funding in the UK. Susan has been instrumental in shaping public policy about funding, and was a founding member of the Association of Litigation Funders of which she was appointed chair in September 2019. Susan had planned to be the senior partner of the law firm she joined ...
Tracey Dovaston On Working In Corporate and Regulatory Investigations
June 23, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBTracey Dovaston is a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, with over two decades experience in financial services regulatory investigations, and corporate investigations and disputes. Having been Head of Litigation Investigations and Enforcement for Barclays in the UK and EMEA, and holding an equivalent role at GE Capital for the EMEA region prior to this, and now as a partner in private practice, Tracey has deep experience and a detailed rounded perspective of this traditionally ...
Charlie Holt of Greenpeace International on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
December 22, 2020 10:54 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBCharlie Holt is a lawyer for Greenpeace International. Prior to joining the legal unit at Greenpeace as Legal Counsel Campaigns, Charlie was a legal consultant in Somaliland, working on justice sector reform. “I found the development sector to be quite a frustrating sector to work in. But it was one of the reasons I was so attracted to Greenpeace. [There’s] something enormously empowering, I think, about working with a group that engages in direct action, confrontational campaigni...
Whistleblower Special - a legal and media perspective from both sides of the Atlantic
November 26, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBThis special episode delves into the complex world of whistleblowing with an impressive panel of experts from the truth seeking frontline. Constantine Cannon’s whistleblower lawyers, Mary Inman and Henry C Su, alongside investigative journalists, Martin Wright and Katherine Eban, paint a stark picture of the US and UK legal and social landscapes within which whistleblowers have to survive. From a $48 million whistleblower reward to the new Officials Secrets legislation in the UK, ...
Sharon Jones on why Black Lawyers Matter
November 02, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBSharon Jones graduated with honours from Harvard Law School in 1982 and, yet, during her time as US federal prosecutor she felt she was met with the assumption of being an incompetent lawyer by virtue of not being a white man. “Why aren't they pleading guilty? And the answer is that the defendant’s attorneys assumed I had no skills, that I didn't know what I was doing, and that they could go to trial against me and win,” she recalls. Black, female role model Defeating the struct...
Ashley Hurst of Osborne Clarke on Law, tech and reputation
October 26, 2020 21:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBWith eyes glued to Netflix and Zoom meetings replacing office space, this ‘lockdown’ has accelerated a ‘digital transformation’ across the world. At the intersection of this new online society is the tech industry, which this week’s guest, Ashley Hurst, International Head of Technology, Media and Comms at Osborne Clarke, says is one of the ‘winning sectors’ of the pandemic. As a commercial litigator specialising in internet, data and reputation issues, Ashley is an authority on the...
Prof. Malik Dahlan of Institution Quraysh on legal ethics in the age of COVID-19
October 19, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBAs a result of COVID-19, 2020 will mark a year of sudden, unprecedented and historic global change. Current geopolitical tensions are also reminiscent of the 1930s and now we have the added and increasing threat of climate change. As the pressures of lockdown prey on our collective morale, the question is - are there any reasons to be optimistic? Well, Professor Malik Dahlan sees the answer to this question in the increasing appreciation of legal ethics, the Golden Rule and their ap...
Matt Getz of Boies Schiller Flexner on sanctions, geopolitics and reputation management
September 21, 2020 20:00 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBWhen it comes to state endorsed sanctions, Investigative Lawyer and Partner, Matt Getz, tells Montfort Communications that business reputation is at the mercy of geopolitics, complex law and inaccurate reporting. Matt tackles cases on corruption and white-collar crime and represents multinational corporations in their moment of crisis for his internationally revered firm, Boies Schiller Flexner. In an educational account of financial crime, Matt unveils the differences between t...
Lord Woolf of Barnes CH on Global Commitments to the Rule of Law (with Institution Quraysh)
August 31, 2020 20:00 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBIn a special collaboration between Montfort Communications and Institution Quraysh (iQ), Professor Malik Dahlan has the privilege of discussing the role the Rule of Law has to play in current world events with one of the greatest jurists of our times, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf. As a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords with a rich international career, Lord Woolf shares tales of dramatic interactions with Russia’s President Putin, his experience...
Steven Kay QC: When politics, international prosecutions, and media clash
May 26, 2020 20:00 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBWhen international criminal tribunals deal with accusations of grave human rights abuses, genocide and crimes against humanity, media scrutiny is at its most ferocious and reputations at their most fragile. With his decades of experience on landmark cases in international courts like the UN Yugoslavia Tribunal and the International Criminal Court, Steven Kay QC, one of the world’s leading criminal lawyers, reveals that in high profile international criminal cases there are often blu...
Michele DeStefano of University of Miami on why communications and law are becoming yin and yang professions
May 18, 2020 20:00 - 12 minutes - 17.5 MBA professional who ‘defies categorization’, Michele DeStefano is a highly ranked ‘Legal Rebel’ who researches and writes about the growing intersections between law, business, and legal innovation. As a professor at the University of Miami School of Law and Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School, Michele understands why communications and law are becoming like yin and yang professions in reputation management. “It’s really important that communication outside the courtroom is man...
Nick Bortman of Raedas on Hollywood style investigations and gathering evidence during COVID-19
May 11, 2020 20:00 - 19 minutes - 27.1 MBIn 2016, with lawyers often underwhelmed by the quality of investigative support, Nick Bortman filled the gap and co-founded Raedas - a corporate investigations consultancy purely focused on contentious work. Credible evidence for Raedas, means evidence that can stand up to scrutiny and make a real difference in resolving a dispute. In this recording, made in the middle of the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown, Montfort Communications hears how this specialist consultancy thrives in a niche....
Alan Ward on whether Unexplained Wealth Orders are the solution to McMafia corruption
April 27, 2020 20:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBWhat exactly are McMafia laws and what does it have to do with Mrs Hajiyeva spending £16 million in Harrods? Alan Ward, a senior lawyer at Stephenson Harwood specialising in corporate and white-collar crime, uncovers the details of the UK’s controversial anti-money laundering powers of Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), both its background and its problems. Driven by his passion for fairness and justice, Alan advises clients accused of crimes such as corruption, money laundering and...
Jonathan Pearl on responding to the mass cyber-attack on Sony Pictures
April 20, 2020 20:00 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBIn 2014 when film, The Interview, about the assassination of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un went from being a harmless spoof to the cause of a mass cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, Jonathan Pearl was Sony’s General Counsel in the USA. Bringing together his legal expertise and technological savvy, communications firm, Montfort, hears Jonathan’s crisis management pearls of wisdom on communications, how to mitigate long-term reputational damage and retain public trust when hackers do their wo...
Elena Tsirlina on fighting back against ‘fake news’ and ‘black’ PR campaigns
April 13, 2020 20:00 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MBWith immigration being a hot topic in the media, be it accurate reporting or the proliferation of misinformation online, asylum and human rights solicitor Elena Tsirlina gives communications consultancy Montfort her ‘winning formula’ in navigating cases with such ferocious public interest. “In public law and cases where intense media scrutiny is very much at the forefront, you have to completely change the tact” – especially when dealing with political dissidents and black smear ca...
Press Freedom vs Privacy: Gideon Benaim on protecting the reputation of high-profile clients
April 06, 2020 20:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBFrom supermodel Naomi Campbell to celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey, as well as major corporates in the finance, tech and retails sectors, lawyer Gideon Benaim gives Montfort an inside perspective of what makes communications and legal expertise a “fundamental” partnership in protecting the reputation of his many and varied high-profile clients. As Partner and Head of Reputation at law firm, Simkins, Gideon uses his specialised skills in reputation protection law to help high net worth...
Episode Intro – Chancery Lane Chats – Stuart Leach and Alex Just
March 17, 2020 16:30 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBIn a world of unforgiving global news, a win in court is no longer enough to protect clients from a reputation nosedive. Bringing together legal and PR professionals, the Litigation and Disputes team at Montfort Communications is a pioneering hybrid consultancy meeting the modern day needs of law firms inside and outside the courtroom. Montfort’s Head of Litigation, Stuart Leach, and Senior Consultant, Alex Just, divulge how legal and communications expertise in one powerful team is the futur...
Adverts, Wigs and Press Releases: An Introduction to Litigation Communications
March 17, 2020 16:30 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBIn a world of unforgiving global news, a win in court is no longer enough to protect clients from a reputation nosedive – this is where the Montfort Communications Litigation & Disputes team comes in. Bringing together legal and communications professionals, this hybrid consultancy is a pioneering service for the modern day needs of law firms both inside and outside the courtroom. Here to set the scene on Chancery Lane Chats are two employed barristers Montfort’s Head of Litiga...