Law and business: commercial news round-up 13.09.13
updated on 13 September 2013
This is the first in a weekly series of news digests, collecting together some of the key business stories that you should have an eye on, because of the way they intersect with the legal world and because they may affect the clients that you hope one day to advise.
Here are a few of this past week's big business stories:
- Royal mail to be privatised in the next few months.
- Significant proportion (14%) of shops on the UK high street are empty. What does this mean for the economy and communities?
- Good news from Jaguar; 1,700 new jobs and £1.5 billion investment in aluminium cars.
- Chancellor makes speech on the economy, claiming things have "turned a corner". Labour accuses government of "extraordinary complacency".
- Five years after Lehamn collapse, where are things at? BBC's Robert Peston gives his analysis.
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