Barrister Andrew Leitch has joined law firm SJ Berwin & Co's advocacy group. Leitch, who was called to the Bar in 1991, joins from the chambers of Neville Digby in Reading. He is also a part-time lecturer in company law at Holborn College, London. Richard Slowe, head of the advocacy group, says Leitch will re-qualify as a solicitor before applying for rights of audience in the higher courts.
Pay experts for work done
As a result of a letter from Richard Freeman (The Lawyer 29 November 1994), it has been suggested that I am condoning “conditional fee testimony” where it affects quantum rather than liability. In fact, I do not believe there is any place whatsoever for expert witness remuneration to be tied to anything other than the […]