Unlike the US, Canada does not separate its federal and state courts and judiciaries but has a mixed system. Each province has a court of appeal, a high court (often called Court of Queen’s Bench) and a provincial court and all have civil and criminal jurisdiction. Courts are organised and paid for by provincial government […]
Hammond Suddards has launched a national bank recovery unit offering a wide range of advice and support to banks involved in litigation with borrowers. The unit will be headed by the firm’s London-based partner Ian Searle and senior solicitor Adam Plainer. Plainer said: “Our aim is to bring focus and additional resources to an already […]
A solicitor has received a full apology and damages from Hampshire Police after she was unlawfully arrested at an anti-motorway demonstration at Twyford Down. Kathryn Tulip, 37, a solicitor at the Kilburn, London, law firm Daniel and Harris, was awarded £8,000 by Winchester County Court after the police admitted illegal arrest and false imprisonment. Tulip […]
Manchester firm Vaudreys is playing an important role in the drive to rebuild the city centre after winning a government contract to advise on the construction of an Inland Revenue office complex there. The practice has completed the first stage of its role as adviser for the Private Finance Initiative-managed development after handling the bidding […]
There is little doubt that Lord Woolf’s proposals will be implemented in full, probably at the beginning of the 1998 legal year. And to survive in the new civil justice landscape partners responsible for litigation management must start the re-engineering now. Many will argue that Woolf’s reforms are a threat to their livelihood. But for […]
“Commercial agents are a down-trodden race and need and should be afforded protection against their principals.” With these sweeping words, Lord Justice Staughton sought to protect agents in Graham Page v Combined Shipping and Trading (24 May 1996). The decision of the Court of Appeal granting the appellant agent a Mareva injunction has been interpreted […]
ONE HUNDRED thousand Law Society public advice leaflets on how to instruct solicitors, which caused a storm of protest over their constant reference to costs, are to be pulped and rewritten at a cost of thousands of pounds. Controversy surrounding the leaflets, ‘Working with your solicitor’, flared up shortly before the Law Society’s elections when […]
At a recent London School of Economics seminar, George Staple, director of the Serious Fraud Office, questioned whether a randomly selected jury of 12 members of the public was a suitable tribunal to try the complex criminal fraud cases of today’s financial world. This question has been posed for at least 10 years. As Staple […]
Richard Koppes, renowned American shareholders’ rights expert, has joined Jones Day Reavis & Pogue from his post as the second in command of the US’s largest public pension fund, the Californian Public Employees Retirement System. As deputy executive officer at CalPERS he helped develop and implement the pension fund’s corporate governance programme and became a […]
Helen Sage reports Stuart Turnock has been appointed assistant director of the legal services agency at Leeds City Council. He joins Leeds from Lancashire County Council where he has been manager of the legal services unit and deputy head of the child care legal department. Turnock trained in private practice in 1974 and worked in […]
Manches & Co advised a consortium led by London & International Projects on its investment in Greenwich Metal Company which was formed to acquire scrap metal business in Greenwich.
DJ Freeman acted for Ralph Lauren in acquiring the lease of 1-5 New Bond Street, London, from a subsidiary of Chesterfield. The building will house the new UK and European retail headquarters of Ralph Lauren.