Action for Victims of Medical Accidents (Avma) group is backing a new specialist solicitor medical negligence insurance scheme. The scheme, which is being launched this week, was devised by insurance company Litigation Protection. It provides up to £100,000 of cover for opponent’s costs, own side’s disbursements and counsel’s fees, plus indemnity for expert witness fees […]
SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of senior pension fund advisers and administrators who responded to a recent survey on property investment think liquidity is important. The study, sponsored by AMP Asset Management and carried out by the City University on behalf of the Investment Property Forum, concludes that property is regarded as illiquid due to its indivisibility, […]
Eversheds has won an award for a paper on sports sponsorship law at the Association Internationale Des Jeunes Avocats conference in Montreux. The seminar, attended by 200 lawyers, was presented by EU law partner Patrick Farrant, of Eversheds’ Norwich office.
Children and their families find the way the law operates hostile and threatening rather than supportive, according to a major report to be published on 23 October. The National Commission of Inquiry into the Prevention of Child Abuse will call for radical changes in the law and the way the profession practises and implements it. […]
Manchester Law Society council has voted to continue using a gentlemen’s club which does not admit women as members after a bitterly fought battle by women lawyers to boycott the conference and training venue. President John Potter, who personally wanted to discontinue using the St James’s Club, said those who supported the club argued that […]
Linklaters & Paines has had one of its high flying litigation partners poached by Pinsent Curtis to manage its London office. Graeme Brister, 41, has been chosen by Pinsents’ to succeed Paul Downing who joined Price Waterhouse last month. The move is understood to have surprised Linklaters. Brister had been with the firm 17 years […]
THE PROSPECT of the International Bar Association electing its first female president by the millenium has been threatened by a surprise challenge to secretary-general Dianna Kempe QC. Nutifafa Doe Kofi Kuenyehia, from Ghana, is standing against Kempe as she bids to win a second term as secretary-general. The move follows Kempe’s earlier agreement to do […]
What limits should be applied to the use of human genetic information? How are electronic developments affecting the legal profession? And what are the current factors influencing success at law school? These are among the subjects that will be examined at the upcoming 26th biennial conference of the International Bar Association. The conference, my last […]
Peter Mandelson MP was on hand to open Hartlepool firm Tilly Bailey & Irvine’s new legal advice centre. He is pictured above, left, with Tilly’s partner John Tilly. Members of the public can drop into the centre for advice on any legal matters.
In The Lawyer, 8 October we stated that Beachroft Stanleys is acting for the South Buckinghamshire Trust when in fact Herbert Smith is representing the trust.
The current euphoria in law firm circles is being caused by a much higher demand for legal services than was projected a year ago. Unfortunately, the success of most firms may cause a return to the sort of management and decision-making that caused many of the problems firms have been struggling to overcome during the […]
Can the IBA succeed where European lawyers have failed on one of the legal profession’s most sensitive issues – rights of establishment? Encouraged by an IBA meeting in Budapest at which lawyers from Central and Eastern Europe expressed concern about the number of foreign lawyers arriving in their midst, the IBA decided in June 1993 […]