In April this year, the Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Aclec) published its First Report on Legal Education and Training, stating its intention to stimulate debate rather than to set out a blueprint for change. If nothing else, the committee achieved its intention – its radical proposals sparked widely diverging views from leading […]
City firm Rowe & Maw has appointed Mark Henrick, formerly of McKennas, as a partner in its corporate finance team. Henrick who had been a partner in McKennas since 1992 has joined Rowe & Maw as a specialist in the transport sector. He will provide corporate and asset financing support for Rowe & Maw’s aviation […]
The latest EC proposal for a framework directive on takeovers consists of a set of principles and requirements which member states will be expected to implement according to their national practices. In the UK, takeover regulation is governed by the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers, a non-statutory body which issues and administers the City code, […]
The Association of Solicitor Investment Managers is giving away free copies of its training leaflets and its members directory. For copies of the directory, call 01892 870065.
Material difference other than sex justifying unequal pay British Coal Corporation v Smith & ors (1996). HL (Lords Keith, Browne-Wilkinson, Slynn, Steyn and Hoffmann) 22/5/96. Summary: Employer fails to discharge burden of proof that difference in pay between men and women employees was not because of the difference in sex. Appeal by British Coal Corporation […]
Manchester firm Vaudreys has closed its family law department following the departure of its two family practitioners to neighbouring firm Lace Mawer. Vaudreys assumed Caroline Bor and Sally Merry would take most of their clients with them and so decided to close shop. Their move also co incides with the departure of the firm’s corporate […]
About two years ago, we decided to completely change the computer hardware, operating systems and applications across our firm. Basic technology we now take for granted, such as the mouse, was unfamiliar to many staff and the training team was confronted with the huge task of training 2,000 people worldwide in 15 months. Although there […]
A clerk at Oldham Magistrates’ Court has banned children from the court’s buildings because of worries about security. In a move believed to be the first of its kind, the clerk to the court introduced a ban on children in the courtrooms and concourse last week. The clerk and chief executive, Kathleen Johnson, said that […]
National law firm network LawNet has completed a mutual co-operation agreement with Solicitors for Independent Financial Advice. Under the agreement, the two organisations will work together to develop new projects and promote the development offinancial services. Sifa, the law firm financial services network, will give free training to members of LawNet.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has launched a banking service which it hopes will transform the way lawyers deal with private client finance. In an attempt to steal a march on the competition, the bank is targeting top law firms with a computerised system, Roybank, that allows lawyers to create and manage bank accounts for […]
The Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell is not one to take defeat in the High Court lying down. Lyell is appealing a decision to turn down his bid to recover £90,000 which Soviet spy George Blake is said to have made from a book published about his years with the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). In […]
Helen Sage reports The first round of legal appointments have taken place following the reorganisation of Avon, Humberside and Cleveland local authorities, and Scotland and Wales, into unitary councils earlier this year. Bassetlaw District Council in Nottinghamshire is looking for a new head of legal services following the departure of present head Jeffrey Godfrey to […]