Davies Arnold Cooper litigation partner Andrew Higgs is claiming a landmark victory for the 19 Lloyd’s underwriting syndicates in the Court of Appeal after a five-year battle with minerals trader Glencore. Higgs said: “This judgment puts a cap on a developing line of law and should lead to a reduction of litigation in the marine […]
A prestigious new law faculty at Cambridge University has run into problems over “unwelcome” noise levels which students claim makes it difficult to work in. The university has commissioned an independent report to investigate the acoustics at the Cambridge University Law Faculty following the complaints about the building, designed by the architects Sir Norman Foster […]
Wilde Sapte has recruited telecommunications lawyer Gerald Wakefield to its major projects group. Australian-qualified Wakefield was until the end of last August head of Charles Russell’s telecommunications group. He left, initially to join a telecommunications regulatory body, but ended up working on a consultancy basis for intellectual property firm Rouse & Co. He said: “At […]
Over the past year, there have been a number of important cases involving banking, building societies and financial services in which leading counsel and their juniors have established their reputations and raised important questions in new areas of the law. Among these cases are NRG, BBL and BCCI (No. 8), which covered issues ranging from […]
Although the concept of pro bono work was embraced in the UK many years ago, lawyers have traditionally been left to offer it on an ad hoc basis and, in contrast to the US, centrally organised pro bono programmes are only just being set up. The Bar pro bono unit, set up for barristers last […]
US firm White & Case is set to launch a commodity and trade finance practice at its London office, bringing it closer to the City’s powerful financial institutions. It has appointed its Paris finance partner Nicholas Budd to head the new London group. Budd is in the process of making a slow transition between the […]
Alison Laferla reports Intellectual property lawyer David Flint is calling for the creation of “cybermarks” to clarify the position of trade marks published on the internet. Flint, a partner in the intellectual property and technology law group at Glasgow firm MacRoberts, describes cybermarks as “a form of right akin to a trade mark for use […]
Dibb Lupton Alsop has recruited Chris Sharrock as a partner in its London-based professional indemnity practice. Sharrock moves from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert where he was a partner for nine years. Kevin Mcloughlin, head of Dibbs’ insurance group, welcomed the move, which he said was amicable. “He is a fine lawyer and is he well […]
The European Commission has been urged by the Law Society to take “urgent action at the highest possible level” to prevent the Polish government from enacting a law to effectively bar foreign lawyers from practising. A letter urging the Commission to act was sent from the society’s Brussels office by its representative, Patrick Oliver. “We […]
PUPIL barristers are set to become the latest lawyers to be put under the documentary makers’ microscope – and the programme is looking for chambers to take part in the project. Zenith North Film & Television Productions is planning to follow the highs and lows of a group of students through their training. The project […]
The House of Commons Public Accounts committee (PAC) has expressed concern that IT supplier EDS might be becoming the dominant supplier of IT services to the Government. EDS recently won a £20-£25m contract to supply IT services to all crown and county courts in England and Wales. In a critical report on the outsourcing of […]
LEADING Singapore firm Chor Pee & Company has split up following a management dispute between the partners. The 28-fee-earner firm broke into two camps following the dispute and auditors from Deloitte & Touche have been called in to establish who owns what. Lim Chor Pee, one of the founders of the firm, has become managing […]