Ms Forscey-Moore is to be commended for her proposals and recommendations in “War of Judicial Independence” in The Lawyer (4 June). And although it’s true that “the public knows there is one law for them and another for the establishment”, any political party that includes wholesale legal reform in its election manifesto – which is […]
Nicholson Graham & Jones acted for Phytopharm in connection with the admission of its ordinary shares to the London Stock Exchange and associated placing of shares which raised £13 million. The sponsor was Close Brothers
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Merger mania has hit the legal profession once more. This week, The Lawyer carries stories of six firms that have headed in this direction, while a joint-survey with accountants Willott Kingston Smith indicates that nearly half the firms in the South East are planning mergers. But, as all who have merged will say, it is […]
Peter Maxwell Durham, 39, admitted 1993, worked for a number of law firms, at one stage established his own practice in London N15 and latterly entered arrangement with the Luper Partnership, London NW1, struck off and ordered to pay £3,680 costs. Allegations substantiated he practised without supervision by a solicitor holding a practising certificate, failed […]
John Rubenstein is head of the IP technology and media group at Manches & Co. The Court of Appeal last week significantly protected individual human rights. The case concerned the claimed right of a newspaper to defame an individual without liability by repeating privileged communications in an unprivileged context. The law gives publishers of defamatory […]
Herbert Smith acted for Hambros Bank in relation to Porter Chadburn’s £7 million rights issue
Herbert Smith, led by head of projects Andrew Preece, has just completed the transfer of European Passenger Service to London & Continental Railways, the company selected to design, construct and operate the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Grown men playing with train sets, with a bunch of train spotters hanging around watching? No – not this time anyway. In a ceremony to mark the success of Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough in helping South Wales & West Railway issue its tender for privatisation, Nigel Campbell (right) hands a model train to the railway […]
Part I of the Charities Act 1992 introduced a detailed statutory framework for the maintenance of accounting records by charities, requiring them to prepare and file annual accounts, reports and returns. This framework is now found in Part IV of the Charities Act 1993 and came into force on 1 March 1996. The introduction of […]
Some fine legal heckling took place last week as six leading lawyers debated the need for radical reform of the judiciary at the Oxford Union debate. David McIntosh, senior partner of City law firm Davies Arnold Cooper, which sponsored the event, argued that judges are living on another planet, an assessment that was apparently confirmed […]
Manchester firm Slater Links has introduced 12-hour working shifts for solicitors at its Bury practice. The office is now open from 9am to 9pm from Monday to Thursday. Partner Bryan Slater said the firm had gone this route because “the old ethos of taking time off work to see your legal adviser has gone”. He […]