Leading tax lawyer Malcolm Gammie is leaving Linklaters & Paines to join the Bar and work part-time for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Gammie, a tax partner with the City firm, is chairman of the institute’s executive committee and a past president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He will leave Linklaters at the end […]
Peter Herbert is a barrister at 14 Gray’s Inn Square, chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, former member of the Judicial Studies Board, and a part-time Immigration Adjudicator.A new offence was created by a member of the judiciary at Southwark this month when Judge Christopher Hardy accused a 21-year-old black nursery nurse of deciding […]
A NEW software tool could herald cheaper access to the Internet for small law firms. Midcore Software claimed that with its new MidPoint Internet access and modem-sharing package, which was launched in the UK this week, a number of firms could pool their resources to keep on top of changing technology. The product was launched […]
The Japanese Ministry of Justice is conducting a review of its policy with respect to foreign law firms. According to Jonathan Goldsmith, the director of the Law Society’s international directorate, the exercise is being taken as part of a move towards liberalisation. He said that Japan was facing a big bang similar to that in […]
Titmuss Sainer Dechert acted for the parent of the National Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe
Paisner & Co acted for Allied London Properties on the £10.2m cash and share sale of Hagley House, Birmingham, to Newport Holdings. Pritchard Englefield advised Newport.
The Northern Bar Masonic Lodge, which covers the Northern Circuit of Liverpool, Manchester and Preston, contains the highest number of practising barristers and sitting judges – 33 and 10 respectively – out of the five lodges associated with the Bar, according to statistics released recently by the Home Affairs Committee. Previous figures from the committee […]
John Abramson was born in Johannesburg on 9 August 1961. He lives in Essex and is an associate at Warner Cranston. He is also chairman of the Whittington Committee of the City of London Solicitors’ Company. What was your first job? Gopher in a recording studio. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? […]
Harris v Mears – QBD 10 April 1997 Claimant: Gemma Harris, 1Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Claimant seven-years-old when insurance underwriter father, who was bringing her up as a single parent, was killed in motorway accident. Father was 31 at the time of his death and had a promising career with a major insurance company. […]
Even if the opinion polls are only half right, we are now only a few days away from a Labour government. In its ranks will be a Minister of State at the Lord Chancellor’s Department who will be charged with implementing the party’s pledge to allow multi-disciplinary partnerships. But should we see this as a […]
German firm Punder Volhard Weber & Axster has taken an eleventh-hour decision to open a Hong Kong office before the 1 July handover of the colony to China, following a strategic review of its international practice. The firm already has a Beijing office, which it established in 1985, and now runs it as a joint […]
A disciplinary tribunal has heard how a property centre and financial services venture by Tamworth firm Rutherfords failed with substantial losses. Five partners in the firm were fined a total of £9,000 for failing to provide clients with adequate financial protection. The London tribunal heard how Rutherfords had opened the property shop under the management […]