Neil Pepin, programme lawyer for L!ve TV, will join Channel 4 in the New Year as deputy head of legal services. He will work under Jan Tomalin, with responsibility for checking programme content and ensuring the channel’s compliance with its regulators.
Law Society president Tony Girling has responded to a vitriolic attack by his predecessor over staff management at the Law Society by claiming “you can’t possibly let sentiment get in the way of good management”. Girling was replying to a backbiting letter from former president Martin Mears, sent to council members and seen by The […]
THE FIRST woman office holder at the International Bar Association won a surprise election challenge for secretary general only to become embroiled in an embarrassing political row. During the IBA conference in Berlin last week, a forum for managing partners organised by Dianna Kempe QC, who had just seen off an electoral challenge by Nutifafa […]
Mr Justice Turner is being asked to decide whether keepers at a Kent zoo park, where three have been killed by tigers, should be allowed to put their lives at risk by entering the tiger enclosures. The case, concerning Howletts Zoo near Canterbury, which is owned by John Aspinall, is well dressed in legal argument. […]
Bob Geldof and Paula Yates could have done with it, Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall could well be needing it soon – but the odds are none of them have ever considered it. Few divorcing couples consider mediation as an alternative to litigation, though changes in family and matrimonial law are seeking to alter that. […]
Hong Kong’s largest local law firm, Johnson Stokes & Master (JSM), has appointed long-serving Simon Ip OBE as senior partner. JSM is associated with Norton Rose. Ip will take over from Peter Edwards, who remains with the firm as a consultant. Ip was previously head of the firm’s litigation department and specialises in civil and […]
THE SPECIALIST local government and planning set, 2 Mitre Court Buildings, is the latest chambers to opt for a practice manager. The chambers, headed by Michael FitzGerald QC, is advertising for someone to spearhead its strategic planning, marketing, information technology and quality assurance. But senior clerk Robert Woods admitted that the prospective employee’s new role […]
Hammond Suddards and Hill Dickinson Davis Campbell are engaged in a Manchester sparring match as both firms seek to increase their presence in the city. Hill Dickinson partner Paul Large has been poached by Hammonds to head its revamped and expanded insurance practice. Large was due to leave Hill Dickinson’s Liverpool office next April but […]
Lewis Silkin acted for stockbroker John East & Partners in the £10 million placing of new shares for UK telecommunications operator Interoute Telecommunications. The placing coincided with Interoute’s listing on the AIM. Row & Maw acted for Interoute.
Beachcroft Stanleys is acting for the preferred bidder
Stephenson Harwood acted for Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts in its £81 million sale of the Britannia Hotel, Mayfair, London, to Millenium and Copthorne Hotels. Clifford Chance represented Millenium.