Judgment is expected before Christmas in a big environmental claim before the High Court. Industrial group Blue Circle is suing the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) for damages under the Nuclear Installations Act, for allegedly con- taminating land owned by the company with nuclear material. The property in the dispute is an estate which includes offices […]
Brick v Parkside Health Authority – QBD 1 October, 199Claimant: Elliott Brick, 22 Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Claimant, a pedestrian, was hit by lorry as he crossed a road near his home and suffered severe and permanent brain damage. His injuries mean that he will never be able to work or study and his […]
John Malpas reports A large, thriving chambers can be run without either a chief executive or practice manager, a leading head of chambers has claimed. Laura Cox QC, head of Cloisters chambers, told a seminar on managing and marketing of chambers how her 42 tenant set was bucking the trend of using practice managers. A […]
I read with interest the article in The Lawyer 8 October whereby “Norton Rose opts for paralegals to liberate solicitors”. If it takes this sort of statement and policy line to “liberate the profession” then it cannot be more welcomed, especially by people in my position who have completed law degrees and the Legal Practice […]
I would like to alert the profession to an exploratory meeting which is being held on 2 November at the Law Society hall to review the state of pro bono work. It is supported by the society and Business in the Community. The deputy vice-president of the Law Society, Michael Matthews, will introduce the occasion. […]
Freshfields has been acting for US Eximbank, the largest lender, on the Uch Power Project in Pakistan.
Nicholson Graham & Jones acted for Jermyn Investment Properties on its purchase of a portfolio of properties for £14.5m from Babcock Pension Trust. Babcock was advised by Read Cooper.
Much has been written about the subject of conditional fee arrangements. The views on their value to the public and lawyers will continue until a substantial number of cases have run their course and the results have been evaluated. One important point needs clarifying in the article in the Lawyer 8 October by Grania Langdon-Down […]
John Taylor was born in Birmingham on 21 September, 1952. He is a barrister now working in television and was given a peerage on 2 October this year. What was your first job? A member of Warwickshire County Cricket Club’s 2nd XI. It was brief. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? Barrister: […]
Richard Predko, 58, admitted 1971, sole practitioner at material times practising in Southampton, struck off and ordered to pay £7,600 costs. Appeal lodged. Allegations substantiated he misused client funds, failed to keep full and accurate books, allowed transfers from ledger account of one client to that of another in breach of Accounts Rules, misled Court […]
Staying criminal proceedings in Maxwell case R v Maxwell (1996). CCC (Buckley J) Summary: Principal factors determining the court’s decision to stay further proceedings against the defendants in the Maxwell trial. Application by the defendants to stay further proceedings on an indictment. On 19 January, 1996 the jury returned unanimous verdicts of not guilty in […]
A lay person will be at the centre of a new complaints system for the Bar. The Bar Council seeks a Complaints Commissioner as part of its reforms. But lawyers need not apply – the £60,000-a-year post is a lay one. The commissioner will form a link between the public and the Bar Council, playing […]