Flotations
Henmans advised computer component repairer CRC Group on its £3m placing and flotation on AIM. Edge & Ellison acted for the nominated adviser Smith & Williamson and the nominated broker Neilson Cobbold.
Litigation Personal Injury 02/12/97
Lawrence v Osborne – QBD 21 October, 1997 Claimant: Peter Lawrence, 39 years Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Claimant, once a successful accountant, suffered severe head injuries in road crash in which he was knocked off his motorcycle in 1991. As result of accident he underwent personality change, became bad tempered, suffered severe memory impairment […]
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The great legal aid franchising fraud
Christie Davies believes that the franchising of legal aid work as proposed by the Lord Chancellor will threaten civil liberties and lead to a decline in the quality of defence work. As we now know, it is the intention of the Lord Chancellor, his civil servants and the Legal Aid Board (LAB) to introduce a […]
Defending the utterly defensible
The Supreme Court will establish when and how employers can use race-based policies this term. Satvinder Juss reports. Dr Satvinder Juss is a Harkness Fellow working in Washington DC and a Human Rights Fellow at Harvard Law School. “Affirmative action” remains a much neglected social policy in Britain. It grants judges in the US the […]
French full partner
Pascal Roux, a corporate finance and banking partner based at Richards Butler’s Paris office, has become the first registered foreign lawyer to become a full partner at the City firm. Roux has been a local partner at the Paris office since 1995, having joined the firm a year previously. The firm has also promoted two […]
Lovell White Durrant advises Barclays on its sale of BZW
Barclays used its principal lawyers Lovell White Durrant to advise it on the controversial sale for only £100m of part of its troubled merchant bank arm BZW to Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). Barclays group general counsel Howard Trust assisted by two other in-house lawyers, Rachel Harris and Mark Edwards, led and co-ordinated Barclays’ legal […]
Fifteen defect from Lagerlof to set up new practice
A group of 15 lawyers, including five partners, are defecting from leading Swedish firm Lagerlof & Leman to form a new commercial practice in Stockholm. Partners Peder Hammarskiold, Bengt Karde, Thomas Lindqvist, Jacob Melander and Per Sundin are leaving to set up Hammarskiold & Co which starts operations on 1 January next year. Melander, the […]
In brief: Blackburn to head Law Advisory Committee
Former Law Society councillor Bill Blackburn OBE , who has helped build up Franco-British legal relations, is to be the new chairman of the British Council’s Law Advisory Committee. He takes over from Lord Justice Phillips. Blackburn, who began his career at the Paris office of Theodore Goddard in 1957, is now a consultant with […]
In brief: Labour lawyers to hold legal aid debate
The Society of Labour Lawyers holds its annual conference this Saturday. It will debate the Government’s legal aid reform plans. For more details ring Penny Weinreb on 01306 886968.
Legal trio help get schools' PFI projects off the ground
Eversheds, Nabarro Nathanson and Cameron McKenna have helped start the schools’ Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ball rolling by negotiating the UK’s first contract for a private company to design, build finance and operate a school. Construction and maintenance company Jarvis, advised by Nabarros, signed a 30-year contract on 17 November with Dorset County Council eight […]
Loeff Claeys merger falls through
Plans by two leading Dutch firms, Loeff Claeys Verbeke and Buruma Maris, to join forces to create the largest law firm in the Netherlands have fallen through. The merger, which would have created a firm with almost 400 lawyers, was announced in July and was scheduled to take effect in a month’s time. Dolf Stuyling […]
White & Case links up with Forrester Norall
In its first merger outside the US, White & Case has joined forces with Brussels-based European law boutique Forrester Norall & Sutton. The five lawyers currently stationed at White & Case’s office in the Belgian capital will move into Forrester Norall’s premises when the merger takes effect on 1 January. The combined office, with 23 […]