Legally-aided mediation in divorce cases will be introduced gradually over the next three years in a four-stage pilot scheme. In a consultation paper released last week, the Legal Aid Board proposes to set up 20 to 30 centres around the UK by the summer of 1997. This number will be increased each year until the […]
New York law firm Chadbourne & Parke has poached a leading oil specialist from Ashurst Morris Crisp as part of its drive to set up an English legal team in its London office. Ian Johnson, a member of Ashursts’ energy and major projects group, is currently negotiating departure terms from Ashursts, which may include a […]
Barrister David Berkley, of newly-opened Manchester set Merchant Chambers, has said that specialisation need not be the preserve of London chambers. Merchant Chambers, which opened its doors on 4 November, will focus on serving the business and banking communities and offer a greater degree of specialisation than existing Manchester common law sets. “We’re trying to […]
Julian Chadwick was born on 3 January 1957. He is the managing partner of Pennington’s Newbury office. What was your first job? Greengrocer’s assistant. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £6,000 on qualification. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? A priest. Which law could you live without? […]
Denton Hall advised Leavesden Studios, owned by the Millennium Group, in successful negotiations to shoot the next Star Wars film at the studios.
Law firms say their “back office computers”, which deal with accounts and information analysis, are not doing the job. A survey of just under firms each with an average of 95 fee earners, that was carried out by Deloitte & Touche for the The Lawyer, has uncovered widespread dissatisfaction. Many firms complained that computer packages […]
A change of venue has resulted in a change of attitude for barristers and staff at Hardwicke Building Chambers. The 70 tenants of the Lincoln’s Inn chambers moved from their cramped 6,000sq ft site to a new 17,500sq ft complex earlier this year. It was officially opened by Lord Woolf on 4 November. Chambers chief […]
I have just returned from the Graduate Law Fair held at the Barbican and sponsored by The Lawyer magazine. During the two days of the fair the Trainee Solicitors Group stand was besieged by hundreds of law students, all eager to receive advice on how to gain a training contract and also to hear our […]
Addleshaw Sons & Latham advised Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust in appointing the Atcare Consortium as the Trust’s preferred bidder in a £15m PFI scheme to build a hospital.
In 1991 Peter Lloyd, a former Home Office minister, stated: “The rights and freedom of the individual and their protection lie at the heart of our constitutional practices. Over the years, they have developed pragmatically in response to society’s needs and perceived problems and in keeping with the British tradition.” In researching their democratic audit […]
The Brussels and Lugano Conventions set out a code dealing with jurisdiction issues between the courts of member states of the European Union and EFTA. The general rule under these conventions is that a plaintiff must sue a defendant in the defendant’s home court. One of the exceptions to this rule is article 8(2), which […]
Carmel Ellen Geraldine Morrison, costing clerk employed at material time for Kenneth Morrison & Co, Gorse Hill, Swindon, Wiltshire, banned from working for any further solicitors without written consent from the Law Society and ordered to pay £329 costs. Allegations substantiated she had been convicted of a number of offences relating to obtaining funds from […]