Supervisors of solicitors’ offices will have to retrain under a revised practice rule approved by the Law Society Council last week. But under the long-planned revision to practice rule 13 – the first since it came into force 26 years ago – existing office supervisors will be given 10 years in which to get a […]
“Robert Sayer has missed his vocation,” muttered someone during a coffee break at last week’s Law Society Council meeting. “He should have been a private detective.” Sayer’s unofficial report into Regis to council members quotes from private e-mail memos between staff at Chancery Lane as their alarm about the problems with the computer system grew. […]
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 […]
New York-based international firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has appointed Asian capital markets expert Anthony Root as a partner in its 12-strong Hong Kong office. Root, previously a founding partner at US rival Rogers & Wells’ Hong Kong office, declined to say whether or not he was headhunted for the post. He said: “I […]
Nine months after it was first instructed, Eversheds has revealed its involvement in safeguarding hundreds of car engine workers jobs in the Midlands with the decision by BMW, which recently took over Rover, to build a factory there. Commercial property partner Stephen Sorrell was instructed in March by the government urban regeneration agency English Partnerships […]
Supervisors of solicitors’ offices will have to retrain under a revised practice rule approved by the Law Society Council last week. But under the long-planned revision to practice rule 13 – the first since it came into force 26 years ago – existing office supervisors will be given 10 years in which to get a […]
Hirrell v Securicor Ltd – QBD, 28 October 1996 Claimant: Frances Hirrell, Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Claimant injured in accident in which she was motorcycle pillion passenger. Described in court as a “gre- garious, out-going” woman who had worked as a booking clerk for a motorcycle dispatch firm, her life was said to have […]
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: […]
Canadian law firm Goodman Phillips & Vineberg is the latest firm to move into Singapore and has poached a Baker & McKenzie partner to head up the operation. The newly opened office is the firm’s third in Asia, which it says reflects the growing importance of the continent in a business context. It will be […]
The big five City firms have been pipped at the post by Herbert Smith when it comes to private finance initiative work, according to the first-ever PFI league table, produced by newsletter The PFI Report. The City firm has advised on 38 PFI projects with a value of more than £5 million, the largest number […]
New York-based international firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has appointed Asian capital markets expert Anthony Root as a partner in its 12-strong Hong Kong office. Root, previously a founding partner at US rival Rogers & Wells’ Hong Kong office, declined to say whether or not he was headhunted for the post. He said: “I […]
The big five City firms have been pipped at the post by Herbert Smith when it comes to private finance initiative work, according to the first-ever PFI league table, produced by newsletter The PFI Report. The City firm has advised on 38 PFI projects with a value of more than £5 million, the largest number […]