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Are we being ‘greenwashed’ by the current Government?

David Farquharson Founder More Info + Are we being ‘greenwashed’ by the current Government? ClimateEarth lawyers certainly think so, and earlier this week, as the UK boiled in a heatwave with unprecedented and dangerous temperatures causing havoc and destruction across the country, they held the government’s inadequate net zero strategy to account by winning a […]

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Legal briefing: The impact of the National Security and Investment Act 2021

Tim Herbert Director More Info + The National Security and Investment Act came into force on 4 January 2022.  It allows the UK Government to screen acquisitions or investments that it considers could potentially represent a threat to the UK’s national security.  The Government can examine and intercede as it considers necessary for the public

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Tim Herbert joins London Law Collective as Director

Founders David Farquharson and Jo Farquharson of LLC are delighted to welcome Tim Herbert as a Director.  Trained at Herbert Smith Freehills, Tim brings over twenty years of high-quality commercial and corporate experience to LLC. Alongside this, Tim will also be a senior leader in LLC’s dispute resolution practice. Founder David Farquharson commented on Tim’s appointment, “we are delighted that

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A Team Sport? Lawyers, COP26 and Change from Within

“Addressing the interconnected emergencies facing our societies and planet will require systems change, and transformations of that scale are a team sport.” (See Harvard Business Review, The Myth of the CEO Hero) It’s common knowledge that the safe limit for the rise in global average temperature is 1.5 degrees Celsius.  A recently published UN Report concluded that if carbon

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