Lovell White Durrant has been hit by several high profile departures, including the defection of highly respected corporate partner Andrew Curran who is joining US firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Curran joins a growing number of British high fliers who have been tempted to move to US competitors. Last year, former Clifford Chance partners […]
Married illegal immigrant not to be expelled R v Secretary Of State For The Home Office, Ex Parte Urmaza. QBD (Sedley J) 11/7/96. Summary: Decision to remove illegal immigrant married to a woman settled in the UK for five months before enforcement action was taken against him, quashed. Application by a Filipino seaman who had […]
Alison Laferia reports THE LAW Society is on the verge of signing a deal with a leading computer company for the installation of its new IT package for small firms. The systems integration house, which the Law Society is not naming until the deal is finalised, will take charge of installing the society’s High Street […]
Intrepid solicitor Jenny Harris raised £3,000 for a South African school after this hair raising tandem parachute jump over Salisbury Plain. The money will go towards a project to provide a new community hall at Rorke’s Drift Shiyane Secondary School in South Africa. Confirming that she has no fear of heights, Harris, a family law […]
LAWYERS are warning of chaos in county courts if judges don’t get the technical back-up to make Lord Woolf’s reforms work. The burden of the reforms, to be announced on Friday, will fall most heavily on district judges in the county courts who will have to hold case management conferences, read papers in advance, set […]
Victoria Cochrane was born in London on 3 July 1956. She played a pivotal role in building a legal team for Ernst & Young’s London office, which won her in-house company/commercial lawyer of the year award at the 1996 The Lawyer/Hifal awards. What was your first job? A florist. What was your first ever salary […]
Alison Laferia reports Simon Nickols, head of finance at commercial practice Lewis Silkin, heard the Three Tenors in concert at Wembley, courtesy of Norwel Computer Services. Nickols won two tickets in a business card draw at Norwel’s recent event, a ‘Day of Difference’. He said: “The music and atmosphere were very good. It was an […]
In his review of the important decision of the Court of Appeal in Chequepoint v McClelland (The Lawyer 9 July “Litigator’s View”) Paul Lomas modestly did not note that this significant case was undertaken pro bono for the new Bar Pro Bono Unit by him and his firm, Freshfields, and David Vaughan QC. Their generosity […]
Rooks Rider acted for specialist publisher Columbus Holdings which listed on the Stock Exchange via a reverse takeover of Carnell
Lovell White Durrant advised Albion Property Investments which bought buildings worth £20 million from Langbourn Property Investment Services for a mix of cash and shares. Langbourn was represented by Richards Butler.
Denton Hall advised in the creation of a new independent investment company called International Pepsi Cola Bottler Investments
North East firm Dickinson Dees has tied the knot on a spate of deals worth about £400 million in the last month. Two of the biggest briefs focused on regional bus companies where Dickinsons acted for vehicles company Cowie and the Go-Ahead Group. Cowie snapped up British Bus for £282 million and County Bus for […]