I was saddened to read Azra Ali’s reaction to the recent Bar Conference (The Lawyer 7 October). As vice-chairman of the Bar Council’s sex discrimination committee may I make some brief comments which I hope will enable her to see our profession in a rather better light. (1) Earlier this year the Bar Council accepted […]
Stephen Bhodan Wilk, 38, admitted 1985, practised on his own account as Bhodan Wilk, prohibited from having his name restored to the roll and ordered to pay £528 costs. Allegations substantiated that Wilk, who had voluntarily had his name removed from the roll, was jailed for two years after his conviction at Leeds Crown Court […]
Sarah Thompson-Copsey is a solicitor at Denton Hall. The recent Court of Appeal decision in Zipporah Mainwaring and Yeoman’s Row Management Ltd v The Trustees of Henry Smith’s Charity highlights the difficulties landlords and tenants face in interpreting the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. The court looked at the ability of tenants to make arrangements […]
Jury actions now pending in the High Court Queen’s Bench Division include: Hitchcock & anor v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (4 November); Basham v Gregory & anor (25 November); Watson & anor v Greenfield (2 December); Christie v News Group Newspapers Ltd (9 December); Western Provident Association Ltd v Norwich Union Healthcare Ltd […]
Boote Edgar Esterkin of Manchester advised St Davids Assemblies on a £1m design-and-build contract with the Welsh Development Agency for the erection of a factory at St Davids, Dyfed. Eversheds acted for the Development Agency.
Wilde Sapte has advised on an innovative financial deal which could open up trading in a new financial product – volatility. Under the ground-breaking deal, fund manager Foreign & Colonial (F&C) bought an option on the volatility of the US Standard & Poor 500 index. The volatility was based on a futures contract traded on […]
Stephens Innocent senior partner Mark Stephens has resigned from Icstis, the telephone line watchdog, following the discovery that he did not tell the committee of a potential conflict of interest. Stephens sat on the Icstis emergency committee which suspended the Daily Mirror’s premium number “Fergie tape” hot-line which was playing conversations between the Duchess of […]
The longest public inquiry in British legal history enters the half-way stage next month as a collective of local authorities tries to defeat plans for a new Heathrow terminal. Hearings into the controversial Terminal Five proposal began in May 1995 and are predicted to drag on until 1998. Joanne Mortimer, Surrey County Council’s principal solicitor, […]
Few areas of the law throw up more problems than the one chosen by west London sole practitioner Jerry Clore. Yet few, if any, could provide him with more satisfaction. In many ways, he admits his chosen field has turned into something of a labour of love. And his labours are earning Clore – practising […]
A unique “what’s in a name?” row is scheduled to spill over in to the Court of Appeal. The appeal moves follow a Chancery Division ruling by Mr Justice Robert Walker last year which held that the British Diabetic Society should stop using that name. Before the full appeal reaches court, however, a hearing is […]
Arguable case shown as to breach of supply agreement National Power Plc v (1) United Gas Company Ltd and (2) Unilicorp United Inc. CA (Leggatt LJ, Hobhouse LJ, Thorpe LJ) 15/10/96. Summary: Appeal against summary judgment in respect of gas supply agreement allowed in part, trial judge’s declarations as to meaning of “delivery point” in […]
Police had to be called to a function held by Lincolns Inn firm Trowers & Hamlins after a fight broke out between two party-goers. Officers from City of London Police were called in the early hours of the morning to the private function room at The Brewery, a licensed conference centre in the City where […]