In my article (The Lawyer 13 February) I asked what lessons were learned and what useful information was gained as a result of the Law Society’s December 1994 study into the use of a conveyancing quality mark in Northern Ireland. It also looked at successful conveyancing firms in this country. It would appear that no […]
Whether this case will settle or not remains to be seen. But if a pending libel action scheduled for an April 16 start comes to fruition it’s bound to attract enormous media attention. The plaintiff is US TV star Stephanie Powers and the action centres on allegations made in The Sun in a story headed: […]
As a life assurance salesman, I read with glee the letter on the increasing interest of accountants in the legal profession. The “free for all” society is now touching not only the newsagents but also the legal profession. What is happening now happened to the financial services sector years ago. The referral system that worked […]
The impact of European Community law on UK domestic law is an increasingly high profile and controversial issue. Most attention has been focused on sensitive areas involving obvious points of public interest, such as sentencing matters, but developments in the more arcane area of tax law may turn out to be equally significant. A recent […]
Brimacombe v Bristol & Weston Area Health Authority – QBD 25 March 199Claimant: Nicola Brimacombe, 8, suing through mother Anne Brimacombe Incident: Medical negligence Injuries: Claimant discharged from hospital after birth; re-admitted after history of vomiting and diarrhoea; underwent operation for insertion of catheter into left kidney; ultimately suffered cardiac arrest leading to cerebral palsy […]
As the BSE controversy still rages and new moves are taken to ban British beef from the dinner tables of the world, controls already introduced with the intention of allaying public concern are scheduled to come under attack in the High Court. Just before the storm broke, Great Harwood Food Products of Great Harwood, Lancashire, […]
A Merthyr Tydfil woman is seeking damages over injuries she received as a front seat passenger when a car driven by her husband crashed. Hetty Walker, 64, who was severely injured in the January 1993 crash, has issued a writ against her husband Kenneth. Writ issued by Metson Cross, London WC2. W2 Geoffrey Linaker of […]
Among the barrage of tables and statistics in a recent survey from the Law Society – Trends in the Solicitors’ Profession, Annual Statistical Report 1995 – there is one sentence that stands out. “There has been little change in the structure of private practice. Growth in the number of firms was almost entirely accounted for […]
LAW Society president Martin Mears has defended the Solicitors Complaints Bureau against a campaign group’s claims that it is solicitor-biased. “I have seen no evidence whatever to suggest that the SCB displays any bias in favour of solicitors,” he said in a letter to newly formed campaign group Casia (Complaints Against Solicitors Action for Independent […]
A LEAKED document highlighting the poor standard of help offered by the Citizens Advice Bureau underlines the “grave dangers” of Government plans to boost the sector’s role, according to a leading legal pressure group. The Legal Action Group (LAG) has published details of an internal report commissioned by the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux […]
CITY firm Norton Rose is closing its Prague office despite optimistic hopes that it would outperform the firm’s venture in Moscow. The Prague office opened in 1994 and was staffed by solicitor David Lacey, consultant Jennie Mills and three support staff. Lacey will now handle Czech clients from the London office in a section headed […]
US FIRM Coudert Brothers is planning a major international expansion of English lawyers which would see its London office grow from 28 lawyers to 100 within the next five years. Administrative partner in London, Steven Beharrell, said the firm was developing the capital as its main European centre and would be recruiting reputable City lawyers. […]