Almost nine out of 10 auditors expect corporate fraud to increase over the next five years because of lower standards of personal ethics, downsizing and the pressure on individuals to perform. A survey published this week found that 26 per cent of respondents to a survey of readers of Accountancy Age magazine expected fraud to […]
UK LAW firms based in Hong Kong are not unduly worried by the new immigration rules which will come into force in the run up to the colony’s handover to China. The Hong Kong government has announced that from 1 April the visa requirements for UK citizens will be brought into line with those of […]
Lewisham Council’s legal team has won a quality standard kite mark although it does not have a permanent head. The London council’s legal department is one of just 12 in the UK to receive the British Standards Institute’s ISO 9001 certificate for quality assurance. It spent 22 weeks working to achieve the certificate and says […]
A Lewes teacher of blind children who was seriously injured when she picked up a disabled girl she was helping into a minibus has launched a compensation claim against the Royal National Institute for the Blind. As a result of back and neck injuries she received in the incident Elizabeth Jeffrey, 25, claims she is […]
For the first time in the history of Rules of Court, they have an objective. Rule 1.1 of the Draft Civil Proceedings Rules states that the overriding objective is “to enable the court to deal with cases justly” and the court “must apply the Rules so as to further the overriding objective”. Whether this adds […]
The recent High Court battle by widow Diane Blood for the right to be artificially inseminated with the sperm of her late husband was odd even by the standards of Leigh Day & Co, a firm with a reputation for a case book that has many mentions of probing new fields. However, while the subject […]
The Solicitors Family Law Association is committed to making a success of the franchising pilot for family mediation services, according to chair of the SFLA mediation committee Rosemary Carter. Responding to the publication of the Legal Aid Board’s approach to the pilots last week, Carter said: “Although we have some reservations about the appropriateness of […]
Weightmans senior litigation partner Tony Prichard has taken his research into personal injury litigation a step further, after being awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy by Liverpool University. He spent four years working nights and weekends to complete his thesis on noise-related deafness in lorry drivers. Lorry driving is one of the more recent areas to […]
Norton Rose and its M5 Group partner Bond Pearce are celebrating the end of two-and-a-half year long negotiations for the £40.3m privatisation of Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth, along with a controversial contract to build docks for Trident submarines. The firms acted jointly for the consortium buying the dockyard from the Ministry of Defence. The privatisation […]
The Movie Picture Association of America, which represents the political, copyright and public relations interests of major studios worldwide, has selected Peter Valert, a lawyer with the Prague office of McKennas, as its official Czech representative. The MPA wishes to have stronger links with the Czech Republic following a visit by MPA president Jack Valenti […]
Claims for solicitors’ professional negligence NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd & ors v Berenson & ors (1997) Summary: Claim in negligence by banks for economic loss against solicitors acting for a customer of the banks and not for the banks.
LITIGANTS in the Canadian state of Ontario will have to undergo compulsory mediation before they can take their cases to the courts under plans unveiled by Charles Harnick, the state’s attorney general. Harnick announced his decision to introduce compulsory mediation in all non-family civil law suits on 31 January. Describing the plan as “a turning […]