Alison Laferla reports Solicitec and SoS have a 12th order for Integration Partner, which links the two suppliers’ Windows products, six months after its launch. Integration Partner provides real-time integration between the SolCase case management system, devised by Solicitec, and the SoS Practice Manager accounts system. The firms say they design ed the product to […]
Alison Laferla reports An encyclopaedia of forms and precedents will be available on CD-Rom next month. Published by Butterworths, the encyclopaedia will give users instant access to more than 10,000 forms and transactional precedents. It covers every title in the 50-volume printed work on a single disk. There is cross-referencing within the encyclopaedia and with […]
Robin Campbell is a barrister at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. The effICACY of injunctions in quickly stopping infringements of planning control was recently illustrated in the High Court. A case was brought by Hillingdon Borough Council against Guinea Enterprises, a firm registered in the Isle of Man, and other defendants said to be connected with […]
As the political temperature increases in the run-up to spring’s general election, it will be interesting to see what happens to legal aid, its funding and development. The Government’s agenda was set out in the recent white paper. It includes radical changes in the delivery of the service, making it more structured and involving larger […]
As the proposed directive on Rights of Establishment trundles through various European channels, it transpires that the CCBE has only now sent a letter of support to the Council of Ministers. The letter, written by President Ramon Mullerat, said that the directive was “closely akin” to the position of the majority of the CCBE’s delegations. […]
Clifford Chance acted for Dairy Crest on its flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Travers Smith Braithwaite acted for Rabobank in providing a five-year £90m credit facility for Dairy Crest upon its flotation.
Freshfields is acting for Cazenove & Co as underwriter and broker on the privatisation by way of a placing and intermediaries offer of AEA Technology to raise about £200m.
Losing an election I can take in my stride but please spare me the regular sermons from Tony Holland. Although I normally disagree with virtually everything he says I have resisted the urge to respond, but one of his recent columns contained two statements which are such fine examples of Law Society-speak that I can’t […]
Andrew Beck was born in Leeds on 9 April, 1958. He is a partner at Walker Morris in Leeds. What was your first job? On the night shift at Black and Decker servicing lawnmowers. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? Not enough. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a […]
Michael Bowes’ article on the “revolutionary method” of advocacy teaching introduced by the Australian judiciary rightly pointed out the faults in the old “observe and learn methods” and that advocacy cannot be learned from reading. However, I feel compelled to correct him in his view that this innovative method hails from Australia. Indeed, what he […]
Norton Rose advised footwear manufacturer and Marks & Spencer supplier the Fii Group on its rights issue to raise a sum of around £8m.
Wilde Sapte acted for Finnish Export Credit in its provision of a £222m export credit financing package to Thailand’s second-largest mobile phone operator