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December 21, 2018

Asserson’s Planning Team Ends a Remarkable Year

Having won defining planning consents for clients, and industry recognition for the strength and depth of their work, Asserson's Planning Team...

August 2, 2018

Junior Lawyer 2018 identified at Asserson

An Asserson junior lawyer has been recognised in leading legal industry awards. Shimon Goldwater has been shortlisted in the Law Society...

November 22, 2018

Asserson Up for Key Real Estate Prize

Asserson has been shortlisted as Property Team of the Year in the British Legal Awards 2018. The firm has been recognised for its Planning practic...

June 18, 2018

Asserson Planning Team helps kick start UK’s largest regeneration scheme

Three major landmark developments, which form part of the UK’s largest regeneration scheme and London’s biggest Opportunity Area, have received pla...

June 17, 2018

Student numbers top 5000 in university compensation claim

The student group action seeking compensation for classes cancelled by universities during the lecturer strikes earlier this year has swelled fro...

May 17, 2018

Chief Coroner Issues New Guidance after Asserson-led High Court Defeat

Following Coroner Mary Hassell’s defeat in the High Court, the Chief Coroner of England and Wales, Judge Mark Lucraft QC, has today (17^th May 2018)...

April 27, 2018

A victory for diversity as High Court backs Asserson in coroner case

The High Court today (27 April 2018) ruled that the protocol issued by Coroner Hassell on 30 October 2017 that “No death will be prioritised in any...

April 25, 2018

New York courts back Asserson clients on alleged art collection sale

Asserson has secured a resounding win for its clients in the New York federal courts, obtaining dismissal of claims against their clients for c.US$...

April 24, 2018

More than 3000 students commit to compensation claim with Asserson

More than 3000 students in the UK are now part of an Asserson-backed scheme to claim money back for lost teaching time resulting from industrial ac...

March 28, 2018

£60million damages for solar companies: Asserson lead solicitor

A freedom of information request response from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has confirmed that the UK Governm...

March 26, 2018

Compensation for students over tuition contract breach: Asserson co-ordinates

More than 1000 students have now joined a scheme launched by Asserson to claim money back for lost teaching time resulting from industrial action a...

February 6, 2018

Top Legal Case in 2018 for Asserson

Leading UK legal publication The Lawyer has recognised the case that Asserson brought against the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) as...

January 23, 2018

London signature building changes hands

After several months of often tense and protracted negotiations, Asserson has completed the purchase of a large landmark office building in the Cit...

January 21, 2018

Transformational planning scheme is greenlit

Asserson's award-winning planning team has helped a public/private joint venture to deliver plans for a controversial housing and office project va...

January 4, 2018

Asserson achieves settlement on legal training concerns

The Law Society conducted a tender process to appoint an exclusively endorsed training partner for a QLTS (Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme) prepa...

January 2, 2018

Asserson leads judicial review to defend religious minorities’ rights

Asserson is playing a leading role in defending the rights of religious minorities in the UK. Amid fresh controversy around the release of bodies f...

November 24, 2017

No Kill for CIL : Insights from Asserson’s Planning Team

Introduced in 2010, CIL was meant to provide a “faster, fairer, more certain and transparent means of collecting developer contributions to infrast...

November 24, 2017

What’s come out of the Chancellor’s Red Box? UK Budget Insights for Property Developers

Asserson's Planning Team has been through the fine print of the UK Budget 2017 to highlight key points for those looking to develop Real Estate pro...

November 23, 2017

Asserson’s Commitment to Private Clients is Recognised as Market Leading

Asserson’s support for private individuals and their business interests has resulted in the firm being shortlisted in leading industry awards. T...

November 23, 2017

Asserson’s Real Estate Team Brings New Entrants to the London Market

The Asserson Real Estate Team has helped a major non-UK business make its first foray into the London prime market. The Firm has completed for the...

July 30, 2017

Asserson Planning Powers Old Oak’s South-East Face

Asserson’s Planning team has helped clients win consent for a total of 500 units, including a cluster of towers in excess of 15 storeys, along the...

July 4, 2017

Legal Insights: When your blog might not be your blog…

It is quite common for employees to have personal blogs which are related to the job they do. For example, someone who works for a fashion-house m...

May 30, 2017

Asserson creates “an English island inside Israel” writes Globes

Israel’s leading business news publication, Globes, has published an extended profile of Asserson’s founder and senior partner, Trevor Asserson. T...

April 30, 2017

Israel’s First International Arbitration Seminar…hosted by Asserson

On 20 April, more than 100 people attended the first gathering of lawyers and interested parties from around the world on international arbitration...

April 17, 2017

Legal Leaders for the Future: New Partner Pair at Asserson

Asserson has announced that Yisroel Hiller and Baruch Baigel have become partners at the Firm in the Dispute Resolution team. Yisroel is the first...

March 30, 2017

Top Tier Recognition for Asserson at International Level

Asserson has been recognised as a market leading firm in the international rankings published by Legal 500. In the latest assessment of legal prov...

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