Client management systems can open up a host of online services to make firms more competitive, says Ian Muirhead. Ian Muirhead is head of Sifa. The march of IT has not passed the financial services sector by. Using in-house client management systems and hooking up to the latest online services, solicitors can more than hold […]
Investors Compensation Scheme claim form appeal (1) Investors Compensation Scheme v West Bromwich Building Society (2) Investors Compensation Scheme v Hopkins & Son (3) Alford & ors v West Bromwich Building Society (4) Armitage v West Bromwich Building Society (1997) Court: HL (Lords Goff, Lloyd, Hoffmann, Hope and Clyde) 19/6/9Summary: The true meaning of the […]
The House of Lords is to decide in a case involving a child taken by its grandmother and aunt to Ireland following the death of its mother who was an Irish citizen. The father fought the removal in the High Court claiming it was unlawful but his application for a declaration to that effect was […]
Simmons & Simmons acted for the General Electric Pension Trust on its £40.2m rights issue for Pillar Property Investments, advised by Norton Rose. Freshfields advised BZW, the financial adviser, and Kleinwort Benson, the broker of the issue.
Roger Pearson looks at how the Spice Girls have so far failed in their bid to prevent an Italian company using their photographs. The Spice Girls are currently involved, directly and indirectly, in two pieces of litigation at the High Court. As reported on this page (The Lawyer, 10 June), solicitor Ian Clifford has launched […]
The House of Lords has now given leave for the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire to appeal a decision that four members of his force who claimed damages over mental trauma they claim they suffered as a result of their involvement in the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in April 1989 were entitled to compensation for mental […]
Today, Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule. Henry Sherman looks at how political change is likely to affect the legal system. Henry Sherman is a partner at Cameron McKenna and is resident in Hong Kong. “Hong Kong is China. The foreigner is always an intruder, often tolerated, sometimes liked, often distrusted, seldom accepted.” So said […]
AN ADVERT placed in the Pupillage Handbook by a leading set of chambers criticising the Bar’s controversial pupillage clearing house scheme has infuriated the Bar Council. In the advert, 2 Hare Court says it is not taking part in the Pach scheme because it is concerned that, in its current form, “it does not serve […]
A recruitment advertisement placed by a Cambridge firm highlighting the fact that most of its staff are female has been queried by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). The advert, placed in the Cambridge Evening News by two-partner firm Milsom & Lentin, states: “Tired of working for the big boys? Do you want to be busy […]
The 13-partner City practice Hobson Audley Hopkins & Wood is this week finalising negotiations to join 150-partner mid-western US firm Feagre & Benson to form the country’s second major UK/US multinational partnership. In an arrangement similar to that created three years ago when City firm Titmuss Sainer & Webb allied with US firm Dechert Price […]
LAW students at Leeds University and local practitioners have swamped college staff with requests for details of the UK’s first ever Cyberlaw course, due to run at Leeds Law Faculty in February. The course, the first to focus exclusively on the Internet, will run as an option as part of a law degree, but the […]
Freda Sharkey has been appointed as head of legal services with Burnley Borough Council. Sharkey, 40, was previously principal assistant legal officer with Ashfield District Council. Before this she held the post of solicitor at Chelmsford Borough Council.