Douglas Fry takes a look at how the UK’s leading firms are developing computing solutions to give them a competitive edge. Douglas Fry is a freelance journalist. The UK’s top 10 law firms have researched their it requirements, invested heavily in systems and implemented diverse solutions. These solutions reveal a number of IT trends as […]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is on the eve of yet another major overhaul. On one level, it needs another shake-up like it needs a hole in the head. The review announced last month by the Attorney General, John Morris, will create uncertainty among staff and divert vital time and resources away from the prosecuting […]
LAW firms which conduct work in the Middle East are compiling a directory to raise their profile in the region. The directory is being drawn up by the 20 law firm members of the Middle East Association, a group made up of businesses and professions working in the region. It will be circulated to British […]
If you have just received instructions on a matter likely to continue into the new millennium, you may find your system will not register dates and hence operate correctly after the end of 1999. This is because the year 2000 IT problem is rooted in the dating methods used by computer systems. Until recently, computers […]
One issue that I intend to cover in my keynote address at this ninth Information Systems for Lawyers Conference is, perhaps, the most fraught of all in the complex world of the management and introduction of IT. I refer to the development of what is often called a ‘cost/benefit analysis’. The underlying motivation here is […]
Lawyers in Hong Kong and China are claiming that the death of Chinese leader Deng Xaioping will have little effect in China, or in the handover in July of Hong Kong. His death had been expected for some time, as it was well known he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and lawyers claim this has […]
The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has criticised the lack of judicial accountability for criminal legal aid means testing, saying that magistrates’ courts have no incentive to get means assessments right. Taking evidence from Sir Thomas Legg, permanent secretary at the Lord Chancellor’s Department last week, the committee expressed concern at the […]
Paul Marsh’s observations on property selling by solicitors (The Lawyer, 11 February) are intriguing. He refers to instances of two claims against the Compensation Fund within my constituency of Surrey. Is he seriously suggesting that grants paid out in these cases were in respect of claims against solicitors acting in their capacity as estate agents? […]
Brough Skerrett acted for Tea Plantations Investment Trust on its £6m private placing. Lawrence Graham acted for English Trust
Berwin Leighton advised IT services company Avesco on raising £7.1m via a two for seven placing and open offer. Nabarro Nathanson acted for brokers Collins Stewart & Co.
Rather than trying to score points over Jack Straw, Bruce Houlder thinks it’s time Home Secretary Michael Howard took a far more responsible approach towards jury trials> The Home Secretary’s reforming zeal appears all too often to be motivated by considerations which have little to do with justice, but all to do with being seen […]