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News 06/05/2022
Kennedys appoints global HR director to drive transformation plans
We have appointed Alan Demirkaya as our new HR director to drive forward our transformation plans and ensure that we continue to attract the industry’s top talent. He will lead a team spanning the UK, Europe, Middle East, the Americas and Asia Pacific, reporting to global managing partner, Suzanne Liversidge.
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Report 06/05/2022
Climate disclosures: a global risk driver in financial lines
With mandatory climate disclosures becoming law in the UK, effective from 6 April 2022, and the United States Securities & Exchange Commission announcing its long awaited climate disclosure rule on 21 March 2022, this report provides a snapshot of the approach towards climate disclosures in some of the jurisdictions in which Kennedys operates, before focusing on what this means for our policyholder and insurer clients in the financial lines arena.
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News 04/05/2022
Kennedys promotes record number to global partnership
We have promoted our largest ever number of lawyers to partner. With 22 new partners joining the partnership, it is more than double the number promoted last year (10) and takes our total worldwide partner count to 293.
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Article 27/04/2022
Can patients pursue legal action after the three-year limitation period?
Kennedys Healthcare team is a regular contributor to ‘The Hong Kong Medical Association News’, a monthly publication by The Hong Kong Medical Association. In this April 2022 edition, Partner Christine Tsang discusses a recent court case in relation to the question 'Can patients pursue legal action after the three-year limitation period?'
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Report 18/03/2022
The future of healthtech: a global perspective
Providing unique insights into the existing legislative and regulatory landscape in their jurisdictions - and the extent to which change will be required - our experts in Australia, Denmark, England, France, Hong Kong, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Thailand identify where healthtech related claims are starting to emerge and offer recommendations to help mitigate against potential risks.
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Article 15/03/2022
Hong Kong Personal Injury Brief - March 2022 edition
Recent cases suggest courts may be continuing to crack down more on unmeritorious claimants who pursue hopeless litigation. In October 2021’s PI Brief we referred to several judgements of HHJ Andrew Li (HHJ Li) where claimants and/or their solicitors were penalised with indemnity costs and/or wasted costs orders in pursuing a groundless claim. Since then, both the High Court and the District Court have readily taken a more robust approach against meritless claims.
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News 11/03/2022
Ukraine: a message from Suzanne Liversidge, global managing partner
We are shocked by the tragic situation in Ukraine. Our thoughts are with all those who are suffering, and we can only hope that a peaceful resolution is found swiftly. Until then, Kennedys is resolute in our commitment to do whatever we can to help this humanitarian crisis.
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Report 09/03/2022
Navigating the global liability defence agenda
Our global liability and defence group brief, Navigating the global liability defence agenda, was created with our clients in mind. With our legal footprint spanning across 24 countries, our lawyers have first-hand knowledge of global issues impacting our clients. We wanted to provide a snapshot of interesting legal issues we are seeing and share some takeaways we expect will resonate cross jurisdictionally.
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News 28/02/2022
Kennedys real estate and construction team to attend MIPIM 2022
We are delighted to once again be attending MIPIM, the internationally-renowned property conference taking place from 15 - 18 March 2022 in Cannes, France. The global property showcase is returning this year for the first time since 2019.
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Article 25/02/2022
Hybrid working and the potential rise in employee compensation claims
While some companies had adopted flexible working before 2020, it was not common practice until the pandemic arrived on Hong Kong’s doorstep. Almost overnight, the city became one of the first to experiment with large-scale WFH. With few formal WFH policies or guidelines in place, specific arrangements were left mostly to the discretion of direct managers or department heads.