Karen Methold questions whether the Inland Revenue should take a more conventional approach to constitutional matters by letting Parliament decide when we pay our taxes. Karen Methold is a partner at Rooks Rider. The House of Lords judgment in the case of Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Willoughby last month was excellent news for tax […]
Simon Chandler was born in Bristol on 6 April 1962. He is an assistant solicitor in the insurance litigation department at Cameron McKenna’s Bristol office. What was your first job? Paper boy, without a bike. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £45 per day as an outdoor clerk in Lincoln’s Inn. What […]
Boodle Hatfield advised Tradepoint Financial Networks
Travers Smith Braithwaite advised Baring Communications Equity and Spectrum Equity Investors on their £6m investment in Internet services provider Internet Network Services
Linklaters & Paines advised the lead manager
Play up, play up and play the game. This is the message coming through loud and clear from Europe and which has recently been given practical effect by the Divisional Court in the most recent instalment of the Factortame litigation (R v Secretary of State for Transport ex parte Factortame & ors). If the UK […]
Duty owed by a local authority to a child in its care Barrett v London Borough of Enfield (1997) Court: CA (Lord Woolf MR, Evans LJ and Schiemann LJ) 25/3/9Appearances: Allan Levy, instructed by Thompson Smith & Puxon, for the appellant. Nigel Baker QC and Brendan Roche, instructed by Browne Jacobson, for the local authority. […]
A matrimonial case has highlighted the increasing problem of couples who litigate rather than conciliate, reports Roger Pearson. A matrimonial action has brought condemnation from high up the judicial ranks of couples who resort to the law before trying to settle their differences themselves. The case involves a couple whose marriage collapsed after the wife […]
Tenancy in chambers is no longer, it seems, tenancy for life. Hopping to and fro between chambers has become increasingly frequent with many barristers uprooting and simply moving on. Why this new flexible approach? Five years ago, barristers moving chambers was almost unheard of. Equally, those poaching talent from other sets would find themselves blackballed. […]
The European Commission is funding a £320,000 programme which will see the Law Society of England and Wales run training programmes for Middle Eastern lawyers. Beginning in Lebanon early next year, the programmes will cover areas such as the importance of an independent judiciary, the rule of law and equal access to justice. English and […]
In an article in The Lawyer, 12 August – “E&Y’s £800m claim against Bank of England struck out” – we stated that Ernst & Young was the liquidator of BCCI. In fact the liquidator is Deloitte & Touche and it was Deloittes who brought the claim against the Bank of England, not Ernst & Young.
The otherwise extremely well-researched and important article by Andrew Millington (The Lawyer 5 August) failed to mention that one of the reasons why courthouse closures have accelerated is the provision in the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act which required the appointment by courts committees of a chief executive, a new level of management to magistrates’ […]