Stephen Foster Jewellery, Hatton Garden, is suing Brian Jackson and other members of syndicate 582 at Lloyd’s for £137,430 following the robbery, on 16 June, of more than £100,000-worth of jewellery. The writ says the company had taken out insurance covering its stock to a limit of £400,000 and loss of profits up to £500,000, […]
Stephenson Harwood acted for the Royal Bank of Scotland in its joint venture with Virgin Direct
Harbottle & Lewis advised European airline operator Virgin Express on its $96m listing on Nasdaq and the Brussels Stock Exchange. Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Virgin on US securities issues.
Richard Kemp (pictured right) launched his law firm Kemp & Co this week and has already recruited two-year qualified McGrigor Donald intellectual property assistant Kenneth Mullen from Glasgow. Kemp, until last week the head of IP/IT at Garretts, has opened the doors of his new office above Saddlers Hall near St Pauls in the City.
Denton Hall has been awarded two major contracts in Central and Eastern Europe. It has been selected to advise the Tallin Stock Exchange and the Estonian Ministry of Finance on reforming Estonia’s securities law in a project sponsored by the British government’s Know-How Fund. It has also been chosen to assist in the reform of […]
City firm Berwin Leighton has been chosen, in an extensive selection process involving 12 firms, to join Lawrence Graham as the sole provider of property legal services to Legal & General Assurance Society.
Stephenson Harwood has recruited a Canadian lawyer to its IT law practice. John Enstone has worked for the telecommunications and IT organisations Bell Canada/Bell Sygma and Northern Telecom as well as in private practice. He is both an English and Canadian qualified lawyer.
Clive Coleman is a barrister and principal lecturer at the Inns of Court School of Law. He is also author of BBC Radio 4’s legal sitcom Chambers. Clive Coleman tells the Bar to keep its hair on – it’s a matter of public concern The signs are ominous. First an MP rises in the Commons […]
Until recently, the tax treatment of payments in lieu of notice (Pilons) made to employees upon dismissal from employment has been relatively certain. Where there is no provision in the contract of employment for Pilons to be made, they are not emoluments from the employment taxable under s.19 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act […]
THE Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) intends to handle 15 per cent of all summary criminal cases in the Edinburgh courts for its public defender pilot, which is due to begin next October. According to SLAB’s proposals, published last month, the Public Defence Solicitors’ Office (PDSO) will cover the full range of summary cases during […]
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine has clipped the wings of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct by ruling that changes to the Law Society and Bar Council’s professional rules only need its approval if the changes “are concerned with rights of audience or rights to conduct litigation”.
Allen & Overy property partner Rupert Jones is joining Chicago firm Sonnenschein’s London office to help it develop an English law property department. Jones, who has just advised Morgan Stanley on a £550m securitisation of Canary Wharf, said: “I want to run my own practice in a way that I can’t do in a substantial […]