Newcastle is now attracting "bigger and better" legal cases from businesses with a range of disputes including shareholder fall outs, contractual wrangles and intellectual property theft.
That's the message from two of the city's top legal names - Judge Philip Kramer and Simon Goldberg QC - who have been reflecting on the five years since Newcastle got its own Business and Property Court.
Next year the court will hear a £250m case which the pair point to as evidence that such legal battles - which sometimes involve eye-watering costs for firms - are not going to Leeds and London as they have in the past.
