A former senior crown prosecutor at the CPS’s Central Confiscation Unit has joined the commercial fraud unit of Burton Copeland’s London office after a three-year stint in his native Australia. Martin Hinton worked for the director of public prosecutions in South Australia before returning to England.
Peter Young, the sacked Morgan Grenfell fund manager at the centre of a major investments inquiry, is instructing Peters & Peters. It is understand Young originally sought legal advice from S J Berwin before turning to the white-collar crime specialists. The firm, veteran of such cases as BCCI, Blue Arrow and Barlow Clowes, will be […]
The SFO is under attack again following the decision of Mr Justice Buckley in the High Court last week to dismiss the second trial of Kevin Maxwell and three other defendants. In the judgment, the judge criticised the prosecuting authorities. Maxwell’s solicitor, Peters & Peters partner Keith Oliver, said the judge had considered the issue […]
Over 100 lawyers from all over Europe will attend a two-day conference for business lawyers scheduled for October 24 and 25 in Bordeaux. For information call Jurist Europe on 33-556-79-50-18.
Clifford Chance lawyer Teddy Bourne has come to the rescue of property investors by drawing up a code of practice for sellers in a bid to speed sales. Bourne, a property partner at Clifford Chance’s City office, wrote to the Investment Property Forum offering to help when he heard that it was looking to set […]
Helen Sage reports The former head of the London Borough of Merton’s legal department, Peter Large, has joined Brent’s core lawyers service, which provides in-house legal advice for the council’s corporate affairs. He said he wanted to move away from the management role he had at Merton and start practising law again. Large was articled […]
As OJ Simpson returns to court for his second trial, the American Bar Association has set up a group to deal with high-profile trials. The ABA resource team for high-profile trials will comprise judges, prosecutors, defence counsel and media with experience in high-profile trials. It will advise judges and attorneys about management issues in high-profile […]
The Scottish Office is to allow the Law Society of Scotland and the Scottish Law Commission formal access to all bills and to have a say in how they have been drafted before they are introduced to Parliament. The move is understood to have followed the hurried redrafting of acts such as the 1990 licensing […]
Proposed anti-stalking legislation has been given the thumbs-up by the Bar Council, which is urging the Government to move as fast as possible. James Goudie QC, chair of the Bar Council’s Law Reform Committee, said the acquittal last week of alleged stalker Dennis Chambers, who offered no defence in his trial, underlined the need for […]
The courts must no longer be run at the convenience of judges and lawyers, and “if they don’t like it they can lump it”. That was Labour legal affairs spokesman Paul Boateng’s uncompromising message to the joint Law Society and Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference on legal aid, which was held last Thursday. He called […]
Alison Laferla reports Legal IT suppliers, angry at being excluded from the Law Society’s IT directory, have accused the society of doing its members a disservice by failing to carry out research for the directory properly. The Information Technology Directory, published in August, is sold to members for £35. It aims to “provide guidance on […]
Taylor Johnson Garrett acted for Barbican Healthcare in its application for admission to AIM