When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.” This advice to the aspiring advocate, said to be current among Tennessee attornies, is probably not the sort of advice English barristers go to the American Bar Association […]
Baker & McKenzie’s London trade marks unit has a new head, Roger Moore, the former head of trade marks at UK company Allied Domecq. Moore, who is qualified as a trade marks attorney but not as a solicitor, will head the group of three paralegals responsible for trade marks legislation. He replaces Margorie Goux who […]
A £20,000 Lord Chancellor’s Department survey sounding out demand for evening and weekend magistrates court sittings only confirmed what the courts had been saying all along, it has been claimed. The survey of non-professional users of magistrates courts, published last week, showed the public was satisfied with the current court sitting arrangements. The magistrates courts […]
Patrick Sherrington has become the latest top lawyer to leave Hong Kong for the UK after eight years in the colony. Sherrington, a commercial litigation partner at Lovell White Durrant and a former vice president of the Hong Kong Law Society, has taken a three-month sabbatical before he starts at Lovells’ city office.
A BARRISTER who accused her set of racial discrimination is to appeal against a county court decision to throw her case out of court. Family barrister Joy Okoye alleged that the development of her practice at Staple Inn Chambers in London had been blocked by the set’s senior clerk and several tenants. But her claims […]
Law Society treasurer Michael Howells has resigned after The Lawyer obtained a copy of an independent solicitor’s report to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau (SCB) on his handling of a personal injury claim. The investigation, which was conducted by an independent solicitor because of the sensitivity of the former treasurer’s position, related to his handling of […]
The recruitment service at the Law Society has been saved at the eleventh hour. A cost-cutting working party, which has stalled a decision on the future of the service several times in the last year, announced last week that it would be retained, the day before the matter was due to go to council. The […]
A BARRISTER whose holiday in France unexpectedly clashed with a court case gave his closing submission to a Birmingham judge via a video link. The move coincides with the announcement of a pilot telephone summonses procedure launched by judges in Manchester and Liverpool. Under the arrangement in Birmingham Judge Malcolm Potter, who sits at Birmingham […]
ARAB and Scottish lawyers representing the two alleged Lockerbie bombers will meet senior international lawyers at a seminar on the deadlock over the Lockerbie trial in London in September. The seminar, ‘Lockerbie: Where Now? A study of Jurisdiction and Fair Trials’, is hosted jointly by the International Bar Association and the Arab Lawyers Union. Ross […]
Helen Sage reports Barnards Inn Chambers has put together a document for local government lawyers outlining its members’ public sector expertise. The document is designed to be a point of reference for local government lawyers when they need to instruct barristers. Members of the chambers have been acting for local authorities in a wide range […]
City law firm Manches & Co reports that business opinion is split down the middle on whether employees who opted to take out personal pensions should be allowed back into company schemes. The finding comes despite the personal pensions mis-selling scandal which saw many employees wrongly advised to opt out of corporate plans during the […]
OPPENHEIMER Wolff & Donnelly has become only the fourth US firm to form an association with an Italian practice. The 200-attorney firm has offices in Brussels and Paris and an association with a Dutch practice as well as offices all over the US. It has now linked with four-partner Pisano De Vito Maiano & Catucci […]