Latest news with #ChanceryLane
Times
20-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Indian trade deal ignores legal services
Five years after the UK waved goodbye to the EU amid enthusiastic forecasts of an independent trading future, British ministers are finally cutting deals. One of the biggest plums being touted by now Labour ministers unavoidably triggers memories of hundreds of years of colonial history: a UK-India pact that is the biggest trade deal since Brexit. Although details of the agreement struck last week remain scant, it is anticipated that when it comes into effect next year, the deal will lower tariffs on goods that Britain exports to India, such as whisky, cars and aerospace products. British consumers will in turn benefit from cheaper goods from India, including foodstuffs, textiles and jewellery. But while champagne corks popped across Whitehall, in Chancery Lane there was disappointment
Times
08-05-2025
- General
- Times
Marlowe's killing solved
From The Times, May 8, 1925 Two months ago, in view of the revived project to complete the unfinished memorial at Canterbury to Christopher Marlowe, we published an article by Dr FS Boas, which contained the announcement that an unknown document giving authoritative details of Marlowe's death would shortly be published. The announcement must have tantalized many who knew how unsatisfactory were the current accounts of the poet's end. If so, now that the secret is out, expectations will not be disappointed. The truth, the world now learns, has been lying all this time in Chancery-lane, at the Record Office, and it has fallen to a Harvard scholar, Dr J Leslie Hotson, to reveal it, in a work just published by him simultaneously in America
