Chris Fogarty reports Twenty-seven former chairs of the Local Government Group (LGG) will be among the 320 guests attending a dinner to celebrate the organisation’s 50th year. The black tie dinner will be the highlight of a four-day LGG conference at Churchill College, Cambridge University, starting on 10 April. “We have 270 delegates, which is […]
A London lawyer is pioneering an interactive legal service on the Internet. Michael Kaye, senior partner at Tottenham-based Kaye Tesler & Co, is supplying basic legal services to Internet users, ranging from advice on criminal matters to grants of probate. And, because he is anticipating that so many other firms will want to follow his […]
A Beaconsfield man who was badly injured in a road accident which also killed his wife is now claiming damages in the High Court. The writ issued by Anthony Lamont says he and his wife, Robyn Lamont, and Ross Sheppard were waiting to cross the A355 Amersham Road at Beaconsfield when the accident happened on […]
Leading Australian law firm Freehill Hollingdale & Page has announced a merger between its Perth office and Perth practice Parker & Parker, to make Freehills Australia’s largest firm, with 180 partners. The move has prompted Parkers, a 27-partner firm, to leave the Allens Arthur Robinson Group, the alliance of Australian law firms which has a […]
The House of Lords has ruled that councils can take into account resources when allocating social services. Gloucestershire County Council and Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell had appealed an Court of appeal decision that once care was agreed it had to be provided no matter how short of money a council was.
Texas firm Vinson & Elkins has entered into a “visiting lawyer relationship” with Beijing-based Chinese firm King & Woods, via four lawyers who have deserted fellow US practice Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom’s Beijing office. Handel Lee leads the team from Skadden Arps and has joined Vinsons as a partner. He was the firm’s former […]
Nicholas Underhill QC is a member of Fountain Court Chambers. Employment practitioners have been treated over the past few years to a series of supposed landmark decisions on the meaning of the Acquired Rights Directive and the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (Tupe). Some of the landmarks have, in retrospect, been distinctly obscure. Does last week’s […]
The elections unit at Nicholson Graham & Jones has launched a hotline for returning officers who encounter legal problems in the run-up to the General Election. It will deal with any query 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the week after polling day. A pager service will guarantee a return call within […]
Jersey has hit the headlines for mostly the wrong reasons of late, but its financial and legal companies are now rallying round to reinforce the positive aspects of the island. The disquiet began because some argued that the financial services sector had become disproportionately important to the island’s economy. The moves to push limited liability […]
Shared-based employee benefits have their origins in the US where this form of motivation and reward for employees, both senior executive and company-wide, has been commonplace for some time. There is little doubt that there is now an equal interest in these structures in the UK and also, slowly, in continental Europe. The UK has […]
AN AMBITIOUS Labour Party initiative to raise £100,000 from a series of seminars for City lawyers featuring members of its front bench had to be cancelled due to lack of interest. The initiative was officially launched last December by the Society of Labour Lawyers and was designed to drum up funds and enthusiasm for Labour […]
Many people often regard offshore trusts as the preserve of the super-rich who use such structures as part of their personal wealth management strategy. However, less well appreciated is that offshore trusts, with their inherent flexibility, are being increasingly used by a completely different type of client – expatriate employees of major corporations based in […]