I read with interest the article headed “Legal help comes to the campus”. I am sorry to disappoint the South Wales firm Hugh James in their claims to be the first in the country to launch free campus-based legal advice clinics for students and college staff. Until October of this year, I was employed in […]
Every law firm has just received a letter from Law Society president Tony Girling in which he reveals his delight in being “able to write to you with some really good news of a scheme which offers good practical support to solicitors and their clients”. During the past 12 months, solicitors have become accustomed to […]
Many solicitors reading the comments of Paul Boateng regarding pro bono work will feel very offended (The Lawyer 10 December) . A large number of high street solicitors carry out a lot of such work in their local communities, and many assist clients either for no fee or a fee that is very nominal. The […]
On June 26, Chicago-based law firm Altheimer & Gray opened its doors in the ancient Chinese city of Shanghai. It is yet another example of the firm’s continuing commitment to emerging markets. One of Chicago’s largest firms, Altheimer & Gray, founded in 1915, is noted domestically for its work in mergers and acquisitions, property development […]
Law Society Council members have called for the society’s flagship computer package for high street firms to be scrapped following the publication of an independent consultants’ report which called it “deeply flawed”. As The Lawyer predicted last week, the report by Oxford Law and Computing pulled no punches in its criticism of the High Street […]
The High Court has found that South Gloucestershire County Council was unreasonable in refusing housing benefit to a woman who was living in one of her father’s houses. The Housing Review Board had backed the council’s decision to cancel Victoria Dadds’ housing benefit in November 1995 because she was living in a building that was […]
The Law Society and other practitioners’ groups are claiming victory in a bid to get the Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay, to form a civil justice council to implement Lord Woolf’s reforms. Mackay conceded last week in the House of Lords that he had been persuaded of the need for such a council. He confirmed that […]
The Special Educational Needs Tribunal is considering limiting the number of advocates who can attend its hearings. “The question in relation to advocates is whether there should be more than one representative for a party,” said tribunal president Trevor Aldridge QC. He believes the hearings proceed best in an atmosphere of informality and this can […]
A Court of Appeal judgment which found a company liable for the racial abuse inflicted on a worker by colleagues has been hailed by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) as a groundbreaking ruling. According to Makbool Jav-aid, principal legal officer for the CRE and lead solicitor on the case, Raymondo Jones v Tower Boot […]
Leading banking lawyer Geoffrey Wynne of Watson Farley & Williams, who left the firm last month, will be joining City firm Denton Hall in the new year. He will be a partner in its banking and financial group and will be in charge of initiatives to develop the practice. Wynne has been at Watsons since […]
Law Society Council members have called for the society’s flagship computer package for high street firms to be scrapped following the publication of an independent consultants’ report which called it “deeply flawed”. As The Lawyer predicted last week, the report by Oxford Law and Computing pulled no punches in its criticism of the High Street […]
Leading property lawyer and Private Finance Initiative (PFI) specialist Stan Gniadkowski will take a major PFI project worth £193 million with him when he leaves DJ Freeman to join Wilde Sapte in the New Year. The Octagon Healthcare contract being handled by Gniadkowski is the first and only hospital building PFI scheme to be signed […]