Leading Bristol firm Bevan Ashford has announced the appointment of Gareth Dodds as energy partner. Dodds will oversee advice to companies on a broad range of energy-related issues, from contractual arrangements for generation projects to the protection of innovative technologies. Bevan Ashford said it hoped to extend its legal services to electricity and gas producers […]
MacRoberts solicitors, based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, has announced the appointment of Charles Cowie as solicitor advocate. Cowie will now be entitled to appear in any Scottish civil court from the Sheriff Court through to House of Lords appeals. Cowie has been a partner at MacRoberts since 1987.
West country lawyers Foot & Bowden has moved into the heart of London’s marine, insurance and financial sector. Situated next to the Baltic Exchange, Foot & Bowden hopes to attract more corporate clients by competing in the London market at Plymouth prices. Foot & Bowden’s main offices are based in Plymouth. “We are still relatively […]
IMMIGRATION solicitors have forced a last-minute climb-down from Home Secretary Michael Howard over stringent new rules for immigrants applying to remain in the country. As the solicitors were about to present their case in the High Court last Thursday for a judicial review of the new rules, counsel for Howard promised to withdraw the controversial […]
The International Bar Association has agreed to back the formation of an African Court of Human Rights, to act where African state courts have failed. Nutifafa Kuenyehia, past-president of the Ghanian Bar Association, who proposed the motion at the IBA Council’s Madrid meeting on 1 June, said: “The idea for this court came from law […]
ERNST & Young has joined Price Waterhouse and Arthur Anderson in trying to set up multidisciplinary practices in the Netherlands. Moret Ernst & Young Tax Advisors, the largest firm of tax advisers in the Netherlands, has drawn up a contract to share profits and losses in what it calls a “strategic alliance” with Eindhoven and […]
The Nolan Committee, amid squeals of displeasure from certain camps, sparked a wide-ranging debate about the need for people in public life to disclose their interests. MPs, among others, have been forced to consider potential conflicts of interest in their work. And so have charity trustees. They are engaged in public life because charities are […]
THE Bar Council has had to admit it cannot force barristers to disbar if they qualify as solicitors. The Bar Council’s hand was forced after barrister Sally Hughes began practising as a solicitor last year and refused to voluntarily disbar, the usual practice for barristers becoming solicitors. The Bar sought counsel’s opinion and was advised […]
Former commercial solicitor Gary Streeter MP is to take charge of the controversial Family Law Bill in its final stages. Streeter inherits the job from Jonathan Evans MP after being whip on the Family Law Bill during its committee stage. Streeter, who lists “the family” as one of his interests in a parliamentary guide, was […]
AS the beef war brings out a flurry of anti-European headlines, two publications are fighting in the courts to be the true European. The ‘what’s-in-a-name’ battle between the The European and The Economist is far from over. Earlier this year, in the High Court’s Chancery Division, Mr Justice Rattee threw out The European’s claim that […]
I see in last week’s issue the Solicitors Association is to contest the Law Society presidency. This is good news; the association’s views are common sense to most solicitors. Although naturally a Mears supporter, I applaud Anthony Bogan for his bravery in going forward for election. The issues are of fundamental importance and should be […]
Andrew Lockley expresses the hope that the Solicitors Association will “fare better than its predecessor, the British Legal Association” (The Lawyer, 28 May). That might suggest to those who do not know, that the BLA is defunct, but this is far from the truth. Under its recently elected chair, Alex Alagappa, it is now firing […]