City firm DJ Freeman is suing members of Lloyd’s of London syndicate, Poland Names Association, alleging unpaid legal bills of £256,000. The practice has issued a High Court writ naming James Crowley and Malcolm Milton as officers of the committee of Poland Names. They are being sued individually and as representatives of all the members […]
Robert Edward James Wilson, 40, admitted 1984, practised as Robert Wilson, Thetford, Norfolk. Wilson voluntarily removed his name from Roll in September 1996. Tribunal banned him from having his name restored to Roll without order of tribunal, and ordered to pay £1,037 costs. Allegations substantiated he withdrew client money and used client funds for purposes […]
ADVICE to the Lord Chancellor that employed patent agents should receive rights of audience in the higher courts but employed lawyers should not, has left the treasurer of the in-house commercial barristers group “extremely perplexed”. Last month, the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Aclec) responded positively to an application by the […]
The Criminal Bar Association has established a scholarship to honour the memory of top advocate Michael Kalisher QC, who died last year aged 55. The Kalisher Scholarship, which is scheduled to begin in 1988, will give graduates financial support during their Bar vocational course and/or through pupillage. “We are targeting those students of modest background […]
Appeal based on police not following Pace procedures R v Scott Ian MacMath (1997) Court: CA (Henry LJ, Mrs Justice Steel, Grigson J) 26/3/97 Summary: Appeal against conviction for affray based on unreliability of the Prosecution’s two key witnesses and the trial judge’s error in directing the jury. Appeal upheld as judge had failed to […]
Former Special Counsel at the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of International Corporate Finance, Walter Van Dorn, is to join Rogers & Wells’ London office. Van Dorn will initially split his time between Rogers & Wells in London and the firm’s Washington DC office before shifting to Britain permanently later this year. At the […]
The most significant finding in what proved to be an interesting industrial deafness claim heard at Middlesbrough County Court recently, was that a company employing lorry drivers would not have known of the potential dangers of exposure to noise until 1972, much later than the usually accepted date of knowledge of 1963. For years, insurers […]
In the national media, the recent battle waged by drink industry giants to stop a tiny Isle of Man distillery calling its product, a redistilled whisky, ‘whiskey’, was seen as the big battalions using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. In the drinks industry, however, the case in which Mr Justice Rattee ruled that the […]
Former Alsop Wilkinson partners are bracing themselves to work in open-plan offices when Dibb Lupton Alsop’s Manchester staff move into one of the two new city centre Great Bridgewater blocks. The move coincides with Addleshaw Booth & Co’s and Masons’ relocation to the block next door. Donns is also moving, from Cross Street, its home […]
Two local authorities are heading for a legal costs showdown at the High Court. West Oxfordshire District council is suing Tewkesbury Borough Council for allegedly failing to honour a deal to share the costs of an action. It is seeking damages over what it claims was breach of a 1991 contract under which the two […]
The Law Lords are considering whether to hear an appeal involving refusal of the Law Society Compensation Fund to pay out on a claim. The claims have been made against the Fund by Mortgage Express and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society, which are seeking judicial reviews. The Law Society has accepted that the claims […]
Bristol-based law firm Bevan Ashford is to co-manage a unique project under which a consortium of NHS Trusts aims to sell surplus electricity to the National Grid. A total of 11 trusts have already signed up to a feasibility study which is due to recommend this week which of the trusts should go ahead with […]