Russell Jones & Walker is advertising for a senior management executive to conduct a “radical reappraisal” of the firm in a role equivalent to managing partner. Currently John Webber juggles both senior and managing partner positions at the practice. But an advertisement in the Financial Times said Russell Jones was seeking to appoint a senior […]
Pinsent Curtis is hiring a senior Big Six accountant as its financial director. One of Stephen Hancock’s roles at the national firm will be to prepare the way for further mergers, although Pinsents is reluctant to expand on what its plans are in this area. Hancock, who starts in May, is a partner at Price […]
I READ your editorial in The Lawyer, 11 March with great interest. In it you urge high street lawyers to take “a long, hard look at their practices”. A good starting point for most high street lawyers might be for them to drastically alter how they communicate with their clients. People do not need to […]
Just over a month ago two decisions were announced affecting the CPS. On 26 February Crown prosecutors were refused rights of audience in the crown Court and a day later the Home Secretary announced plans to base all CPS lawyers in police stations and for the CPS to lose its right to discontinue cases it […]
In The Lawyer, 18 March, Vicky Thompson, who has launched a new practice management and marketing service for the Bar, was incorrectly described as being a solicitor.
Passing off and trade mark infringement United Biscuits (UK) v Asda Stores (1997) Ch.D (Walker J) 18/3/97 Summary: Whether or not the sale of own-brand items directly targeted at a market leader and packaged and marketed in a similar way amounts to passing off and an infringement of trade marks. The plaintiff, a major biscuit […]
The Birmingham Six are heading for a High Court libel confrontation with Tory MP David Evans over comments he allegedly made about them last month. They claim that at the same talk that Evans is said to have described the Heritage Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, as being “dead from the neck up” and a Labour Party […]
It was only a matter of time before the Internet began to raise serious questions for the courts. Now an action looks scheduled to become the High Court’s first full-blown test case to centre on the Internet. The dispute is between Internet publisher and conference specialists Mecklermedia Corporation and Mecklermedia and a rival German concern, […]
Frank Panford was born in Ghana on 23 January 1949. He is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. What was your first job? Law lecturer. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £5,000. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? Something worthy, like an eye surgeon or a jazz […]
The Royal Bank of Scotland and Elite Information Systems have come together to create the first partnership between a bank and a software company specialising in the legal sector. The move allows solicitors to reconcile client and firm accounts directly with the bank. Elite, which is based in Los Angeles, has more than 20 legal […]
The Preston Partnership and Morley & Scott acted for Oxford Technology Venture Capital on its £5m flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Halliwell Landau advised John Sidall and Son, the sponsor and broker.
Cases pending in the Queen’s Bench Division jury list include: Halligan v Liverpool 8 Law Centre (not before 14 April); Khashoggi v IPC Magazines (not before 14 April); Leverdene and anor v Frank Lawrence (Slough Observer) (not before 14 April).