Many leading chancery practitioners are still bemoaning the loss of Robert Walker QC, formerly at 5 Stone Buildings, to the bench, and a few confess to being hard-pressed in their quest for outstanding silks. But for the majority, chancery leaders are still to be found in the regular hunting grounds. The sets most frequently mentioned […]
The buzz words circulating in chancery chambers these days are ‘bus- iness law’ and ‘financial law’. These denominations are well justified by the work actually being done. Even the property and trusts experts are focusing their marketing strategies on the business community. It is now well understood that the Chancery Division is a commercial court. […]
Davies Arnold Cooper has been reappointed to advise the Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust for another five years following a beauty contest. Donns is to join a panel handling uninsured loss-recovery claims for Leeds-based motor insurance company Privilege Insurance.
Highly regarded five-partner niche construction firm Fenwick Elliott has lost its top biller partner Joseph Hannah and associate Timothy Mould who have resigned to set up their own practice. It is believed Hannah, who has worked at Fenwicks since 1989 and has been a partner there for five-and-a-half years, was in dispute with the partnership, […]
Did you know that Mobo was a dog on 1960s kids TV, or that, according to the RSPCA, the best way to kill a lobster is to freeze it for two hours at -20C and then boil it? Do you care? If you do, then you probably did The Lawyer Christmas Quiz, and are still […]
Bar Council chair Robert Owen has condemned the government’s Police Bill, saying it demonstrates the need to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law. Addressing a meeting on the Police Bill last week, which was held jointly by the Law Society, Liberty and Justice, Owen said: “Much as we welcome Michael Howard’s […]
The news of the launch of Coopers & Lybrand’s law firm has created more of a ripple than a splash in the marketplace. But the waves will follow eventually. The top 10 City law firms have noted that Arthur Andersen’s three-and-a-half-year-old firm, Garrett & Co, which has more than 100 lawyers, is still to affect […]
Former Law Society president Anthony Holland has been appointed Personal Investment Authority ombudsman, replacing Stephen Edell who retires in June. Holland, a partner at Foot & Bowden since 1964, was Law Society president in 1990, and currently chairs the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. The PIA is currently handling the controversial personal pensions misselling review.
Alison Laferla reports The Scottish law courts closed for business for two days recently in order to demonstrate live transcript and document image technology to the Scottish legal profession. The series of discussions and demonstrations, which took part in the Supreme Courts, were initiated by Paul Motion, associate at Edinburgh firm Fyfe Ireland. Motion had […]
Lawyers go to the Family Court Division on Tuesday to challenge the power of judges to order forced Caesareans on pregnant women. Leigh Day & Co solicitor Richard Stein and 12 Gray’s Inn Square barrister Barbara Hewson, representing an unnamed woman who underwent a court-ordered Caesarean, will be asking for application for leave for a […]
After months of attacking the Law Society for financial ineptitude, its deputy treasurer Robert Sayer is now seeking to become its president. In a surprise move, the former president Martin Mears has agreed to stand as Sayer’s deputy rather than make a second bid for the presidency, as he was widely expected to do. But […]
A FORMER CPS prosecutor has launched an unprecedented electoral challenge for the leadership of the top civil servant’s union. Tony Engel, who retired recently as a crown prosecutor after eight years with the CPS, has launched his bid to replace Baroness Elizabeth Symons as head of the Association of First Division Civil Servants (FDA) with […]