Letters encouraging young barristers to apply for 12 new judicial assistant posts have been circulated to all chambers by the Bar Council, due to a shortage of applications. Nominations for 12 young barristers and solicitors to assist Court of Appeal Judges in clearing the backlog of cases have to be submitted to the Lord Chancellor’s […]
I have been following the ‘to specialise or not to specialise’ debate with interest. In my opinion, a solicitor (unlike a barrister) should first of all be a man of affairs. Prior to coming into private practice I was a senior examiner with the Inland Revenue for 10 years and have been a magistrate for […]
Linklaters & Paines advised project sponsors and project company Uni-Mar Enerji Yatirimlari on the financing of a $700m 480megawatt gas-fired power station in western Turkey.
THE new European tripartite firm, Liedekerke Simeon Wessing, has opened an office in Brussels. The office is an extension of the alliance forged in September between French firm Simeon & Associes, Belgian firm Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck & Kirkpatrick and the German firm Wessing Berenberg-Gossler Zimmermann Lange. The agreement allows each firm to offer its clients […]
Bird & Bird acted for Fairhold Homes in its acquisition of £10.7m worth of freehold interests in house managers flat rentals from McCarthy & Stone. Fairhold was funded by the GiroCredit Bank which was advised by Davis Arnold Cooper. Travers Smith Braithwaite advised McCarthy & Stone.
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers insists its code of conduct has been approved in principle despite a row over its wording. Apil leaders had expected delegates at the group’s annual conference on 15 November to approve its compulsory code of conduct in full. But some of the group’s 3,000 members were worried that one […]
Scottish law firms are offering a high quality service in general corporate and commercial work, but are losing business to London in international and intellectual property law, according to a recent survey of legal clients. A survey of 401 industrial and commercial clients, commissioned by the Law Society of Scotland and Scottish Financial Enterprise, has […]
Danish firm Kromann & Munter is expanding its London operation to target new Danish companies setting up in the UK. The firm is sending one its senior partners from Copenhagen to head up the London office, which has previously been run by a more junior lawyer, Claus Hansen. From January, Peter Friis will take over […]
Circuit judges have called on chief constables throughout the country to reconsider their policy of withdrawing police from Crown Court complexes. The Council of Her Majesty’s Circuit Judges is worried after a series of incidents involving intimidation of jurors, courtroom violence and, in one instance, drug dealing in the middle of a case. “What use […]
London firm Baileys Shaw & Gillett is looking to merge with a similar-sized firm to boost its reputation in its key practice areas. The firm, which has 22 partners and is strong in commercial property litigation, has had preliminary talks with a number of firms including 36-partner Wedlake Bell, a London-based practice which has a […]
Irwin Mitchell is to catapult itself into the top 10 of Birmingham firms thanks to a merger with five-partner Birmingham practice Rigbeys, which will take effect next week. Irwin Mitchell’s managing partner, Howard Culley, said his firm had approached Rigbeys because of its corporate experience and because its expertise in insolvency, housing association and retail […]
Manchester firm Pannone & Partners has recruited a former detective chief inspector to its forensic and corporate defence department. Gordon Evans, 53, will be actively involved in white-collar fraud defence work. The firm said that Evans’ experience would strengthen its forensic arm, which specialises in the protection of clients’ interests in crime, tax and regulatory […]