David Jessel, presenter of Rough Justice and Trial and Error, will be among a panel of experts answering questions from solicitors and others on how best to lobby those in power. The session will be chaired by BBC TV West’s Chris Vacher and held at Taunton’s county library on Friday 13 September. The other panellists […]
In last week’s issue of The Lawyer it was incorrectly reported on the City page under the headline “Linklaters forced out of brewery bid work” that Ashurst Morris Crisp was advising Bass, and Simmons & Simmons was acting for Allied Domecq during negotiations for Bass to acquire Allied Domecq’s half share in Carlsberg Tetley. In […]
Insolvencies are running at much lower levels compared with the bleak days of recession in the early 1990s – but for small businesses there is little cause for celebration. Analysts point out that though fewer big companies are going to the wall, smaller groups are still failing in large numbers. Michael Steiner, insolvency partner at […]
Helen Sage reports The first in a series of meetings to decide the fate of the Government’s White Paper on the reform of white collar compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) was due to take place last week. Officers from the Association of Metropolitan Authorities council associations were due to meet on Friday with the department of […]
Herbert Smith is advising giant reinsurance company Swiss Re which is splashing out £1.75 billion to buy rival Mercantile & General from parent group Prudential Corporation. Freshfields is acting for Prudential. Commenting on the transaction, Herbert Smith partner Mark Satterly said: “This acquisition is part of a trend in the City which has seen a […]
The States of Jersey, the legislative assembly to the island of Jersey, has concluded its debate on the detailed articles of the draft limited liability partnerships law. The session, on 3 September, completed the work of an earlier session on 23 July, before the summer recess, when the initial articles of the law were debated […]
South-WEST firm Bevan Ashford has recruited a corporate partner to spearhead a drive for new business. George Wilkinson, a former partner at Bristol firm Lyons Davidson, joined the South West firm last week. Wilkinson, 43, who is a specialist in company law, corporate finance and occupational pensions, joined the firm’s Plymouth office which is traditionally […]
With his ideas for a legal revolution that borrow much from across the Channel, Lord Woolf may have put UK justice on the block, says Geraldine Gadbin Lord Woolf must be a fan of Napoleon. Apart from creating the Civil Code, the French dictator implemented the Code de Procedure Civile, now the Nouveau Code, a […]
The Government has publicly called for the development of software to screen out offensive material on the Internet in response to advice from Internet specialists at Denton Hall. The Government instructed the firm to produce a study on behalf of the DTI’s Information Society Initiative earlier this year. A team led by partner Nicholas Higham […]
The London office of Elliot & Company is losing its personal injury partner, Geoffrey Keens, this week when he leaves to join the insurance litigation department of Hill Dickinson. Keens is leaving the firm after seven years to develop Hill Dickinson’s personal injury presence in London. He acquired his specialism in personal injury when he […]
A Pilot for a telephone-summons procedure for Mercantile Lists has got off to an inauspicious start, with no bookings for its first week. The pilot was due to start on 2 September in the Liverpool and Manchester Mercantile Lists to benefit law firms located 10 miles away from the court. The procedure is aimed at […]
Slaughter and May is advising Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, which is investigating the activities of two of its fund managers suspended last week. Morgan Grenfell, part of Deutsche Bank, suspended the managers after inquiries by City regulator, the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation (IMRO). IMRO’s inquiries concern the valuation of unlisted securities in the Scandinavian market […]