Manchester firm Wacks Caller has strongly denied suggestions of internal problems after the defection of two partners and two lawyers. In a reversal of fortune for the firm, partners Geoffrey Smith and David Leverton have left the firm they joined in January 1995 when they defected from Fox Brooks Marshall. Wacks snatched four partners and […]
Deportation and the public interest Goremsandu v Secretary of State for the Home Department (1996) Court: CA (Stuart-Smith LJ, Rose LJ and Sir John Balcombe) Summary: When the Home Secretary is to consider deportation of an offender, a factor which may outweigh the likelihood of the offender not offending again is where the offence is […]
Barrister John Ogilvie Holden has been sworn in as Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester, at a ceremony held at Bishopscourt on 2 January. Holden, a barrister with Lincoln’s and Gray’s Inns, was a founder member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society, and sits as chairman on various medical and social security tribunals. His new role, […]
New Bar Council chair Robert Owen QC has slammed politicians and the popular press for pandering to public prejudices on law and order. Just two weeks into the job, Owen said politicians were failing the public by not adequately debating legislation, such as proposed police powers to tap telephones, for fear of being seen as […]
Having scaled the heights of partnership, especially with one of the large City firms, it must be tempting to sit back and bask in the glory. Although it is a sign that you have arrived, after 10 or more years of serious fee earning, this peak may start to look suspiciously like a plateau from […]
In one of the largest ever property deals in the City, lawyers are drawing up the terms of the high-profile sale of part of Spitalfields Market to the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe). The multi-million pound deal is seen as a victory for the City Corporation over Canary Wharf, which had been […]
Slaughter and May senior partner Giles Henderson CBE has had his position renewed to 2001. Henderson, who joined Slaughters in 1968, was appointed senior partner in January 1993. The 54-year-old was closely involved in the Government’s privatisation programme from 1983 to 1992.
What will 1997 bring? Well, a general election for sure, but it may also bring a Labour government and a whole new set of challenges for beleaguered local authority lawyers. Certainly, local authority lawyers have had a rough ride of late. Compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) has been presenting a little local difficulty with, for example, […]
Chinese legal history has been made this month with the introduction of the Lawyers Law, the country’s first national law governing the regulation of the legal profession. It represents another step towards China’s re-establishment of its legal profession. Lawyers were a casualty of the Cultural Revolution and were reintroduced in 1979. Although enabling regulations which […]
Size has become a big issue in the law. Being bigger is a fine obsession. We would all love a larger slice of the big five law firms’ client base. But it is not a life or death matter. No law firm is going to close down because it does not have the right number […]
Nabarro Nathanson acted for Blue Circle Properties on the sale of the Masthead Estate at Crossways, Dartford, to Britannia Life for over £10m. Cameron Markby Hewitt represented Britannia Life.
Philip Canter was born in Liverpool on 15 March 1937. He is now head of the criminal department at Liverpool firm Gregory Abrams. What was your first job? When I qualified I set up in partnership with Howard Jackson as Jackson & Canter. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £5 per week […]