The recent Court of Appeal ruling on moves to establish a unique floating heliport on London’s Thames has far from cleared up the question marks hanging over the proposals. Thames Heliport, the company behind the £1.5 million scheme, wants to convert the 150ft Father Thames, at present a floating restaurant, into a floating heliport. It […]
Lawyers will meet in Nottingham on Friday to discuss taking test cases against those who cause accidents, to ensure they pay for their victims’ National Health Service medical costs. Organised by East Anglia University Personal Injury and Medical Law Centre director Frederick Holding, the meeting of about 20 lawyers will examine whether existing legislation allows […]
Hammond Suddards is half-way towards poaching Nabarro Nathanson’s client, Hull engineering company Fenner, having just completed its first major transaction for the listed company (see Flotations). David Armitage, Hammonds corporate partner in Leeds, has just advised Fenner on the £5.45 million sale of its Hull gear manufacturing facility to Sumitomo Heavy Industries of Japan. Fenner […]
National firm Eversheds is aiming to build one of the leading pensions practices in Europe with the appointment of Hammond Suddards pensions specialist Robin Ellison. Currently a consultant at Hammond Suddards, Ellison will join Eversheds initially as a consultant and will become a partner and National Head of Pensions at Eversheds later in 1997. He […]
The assumption that the first £30,000 of a termination payment to former employees will be tax-free is an important basic principle for both employees and employers. However, over the past year, this tax-free payment has been under threat. Admittedly, there have always been limitations to this basic principle. For example, it can only be made: […]
The Government Legal Service (GLS) has had to introduce equal opportunity measures, having been found guilty of racial and sex discrimination against a black woman job applicant. An industrial tribunal found the GLS guilty of undermarking Chineme Nwoke in her application for a post as a solicitor in the Treasury Solicitors Department in February. The […]
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 […]
BARBARA Mills QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has moved to reassure critics of the new criminal disclosure rules that they will not lead to miscarriages of justice. Mills last week told a conference organised by the British Academy of Forensic Sciences that the CPS and the police were working together to comply with the […]
Clifford Chance has become what is believed to be the first law firm to draw up a guide for its clients on what life under a Labour government might be like. Entitled New Labour, New Government? it has been compiled by the firm’s public policy group headed by Richard Thomas, who was appointed from the […]
Charlotte Collier was born in Burton-on-Trent on 13 June 1959. She is a partner specialising in childcare at legal aid firm Atkins Hope in Croydon. What was your first job? Selling fruit and vegetables in a greengrocers. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £4,500. What would you have done if you hadn’t […]
Having read Teresa Gorman’s viewpoint in The Lawyer 10 December with a certain amount of curiosity, I was interested to see her refer to “the closed shop arrangement, whereby only solicitors or one of the other professionals can open the door to a barrister”. Perhaps she could consult with one of her numerous barrister colleagues […]
Davies Arnold Cooper acted for traffic information provider Trafficmaster in its £16.9 million rights issue and on its deal with Vauxhall to fit at least 100