Two partners at Milton Keynes firm Heald Nickinson have entered into individual voluntary arrangements, but they say they have revitalised the firm’s fortunes by bringing in fresh blood. Tim Roberts and Gareth Pobjoy, as well as former senior partner Richard Swan, who has since left the firm, entered into individual voluntary arrangements in May because […]
A CONTROVERSIAL network of personal injury firms has reacted furiously to a claim by national law firm Eversheds that a campaign to target potential workplace asthma claimants was “blatant ambulance chasing and utterly irresponsible”. The Allied Lawyers Response Team (Alert) has accused Eversheds, which made the claims in a press release to the insurance media, […]
The award of almost IR£7 million in fees to a legal team which represented a company at the centre of a judicial inquiry into the Irish meat industry has provoked a storm of protest in Eire. Senior counsel Dermot Gleeson, who led a team representing Goodman International at the inquiry, has been awarded fees of […]
Lord Woolf has criticised lawyers from both sides of a divorce proceedings for becoming so combative that the husband’s side tried to get the wife committed to prison for not giving back his curtains. The Court of Appeal heard how the former husband’s solicitor, Portsmouth sole-practitioner Gregory Challenor, had alleged a court order for the […]
Criminal lawyers are disappointed by the Government’s refusal to change the Home Secretary’s powers of regulating life sentences. In response to the Home Affairs Select Committee report on the mandatory life sentence for murder, the Government has rejected a recommendation the Home Secretary’s role in setting the tariff and deciding release should be removed. The […]
City-based firm Clifford Chance has poached derivatives lawyer Claude Brown from Linklaters & Paines. Brown, who will focus on developing new derivatives products, largely over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives in emerging markets, said of his move: “In today’s global derivatives market, it is the genuinely global law firm which is best placed to meet clients’ needs. “I […]
Stuart Cobbett is moving from Canadian barristers and solicitors Stikeman Elliott’s Montreal headquarters to head the firm’s City-based operation from 1 September. Cobbett takes over from Calin Rovinescu who returns to Canada to become the firm’s managing partner. Cobbett said there would be no dramatic changes at the London office.
Furious Scottish solicitors have attacked the Law Society of England and Wales for holding a seminar labelled “a joint UK/US session” without their participation. The session, held at the ABA conference, was co-chaired by Tony Girling and had senior City solicitors speaking on the business issues of practising in Europe. It was jointly sponsored by […]
A senior barrister has failed in her bid to come to the aid of the Law Commission by reporting allegations made in the Daily Mail that it is run by “fashionable liberals” to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Josephine Hayes, of 3 New Square, complained to the PCC that a series of articles by the […]
Consumers Association senior lawyer Keith Richards, the author of the damning Which? survey into the quality and cost of legal advice, is to leave after 10 years for a newly-created in-house post at the Association of British Travel Agents. Barrister Richards becomes Abta’s first head of consumer affairs on 1 September, heading two departments – […]
ALLEGATIONS that victims of motor accidents are being exploited by a growing number of unscrupulous solicitors are to be put to the Law Society this week. Members of the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (Mass) and the Motoring Uninsured Loss Recoveries Association (Mulra) are to meet Chancery Lane officials to discuss fears that solicitors are losing […]
A headline saying “Allen & Overy pulls out of Budapest office” in last week’s issue was not meant to convey the impression that Allen & Overy was closing in Budapest. As was made clear in the text of the story, the firm will retain an office in the city.