Sunday opened with a morning screening of Some Mother’s Son co-written by Jim Sheridan and directed by Terry George and ended with a beach party after the screening of the The Van directed by Stephen Frears and written by Roddy Doyle. This year London firms are hunting in packs; I spotted three lawyers of Richards […]
Nearly a decade after the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in Dublin was launched, competition between the select few legal players in the sector is greater than ever. Set up in 1987, the IFSC sought to establish an Irish presence in the global offshore finance industry. It was designed to attract treasury, fund management and […]
Major changes have been introduced to the law of trade marks in Ireland as a result of the Trade Marks Act 1996. The Act contains many identical provisions to the UK Trade Marks Act 1994, unsurprising because like the UK Act, it was designed to comply with European statute. But it also introduces new special […]
Dibb Lupton Broomhead has claimed a national first with the formation of a new commercial regulatory group to deal with all its regulatory work. According to the firm, the six-partner group will break the mould by handling contentious and non-contentious work. Partner Neil Gerrard, who heads the group, said very few firms were strong in […]
Next year, the Institute of Professional Legal Studies celebrates its 20th birthday. It will also celebrate a control system envied by its neighbours, which has brought many advantages for those studying there. Students entering the institute have a more settled career ahead of them those anywhere else in the UK. Work is integrated into their […]
The government’s much vaunted Private Finance Initiative is under fire again. The latest furore follows revelations that the new National Insurance computer system has run into difficulties. Andersen Consulting is to pay the Government millions of pounds in compensation because it is unable to meet deadline commitments it made when it won the development contract […]
Commercial property and project finance partner Stan Gniadkowski is leaving DJ Freeman to join City rivals Wilde Sapte. Gniadkowski is one of 12 new partners in what the firm says is its largest ever batch of appointments. All the other partners have been promoted internally, an unusual move for a firm of Wilde Sapte’s size. […]
FIVE HUNDRED law firms have now signed up to a new “after-the-event” legal costs scheme. Among firms which have now joined LawAssist, which is run by Greystoke Legal Services, are Herbert Smith and Pannone & Partners. LawAssist, launched at the beginning of the year, is the only scheme which offers individuals cover after an actionable […]
Several partners from big City law firms have applied to an advertisement for a £700,000 a year job which caused a storm of publicity last week. The salary, the highest ever advertised for a partner, was placed by New York firm Chadbourne & Parke in its search for three project finance partners for its London […]
A SHARP fall in the total value of management buy-outs in Europe in 1995 has been recorded by a newly published survey. But Germany and the Netherlands stand out as buoyant countries for buy-outs in what is being described as a steady year by the publishers of the European Buyout Review 1996. The review, produced […]
Ruth Harvey is an employment specialist at Barnett Alexander Chart, solicitors. As someone from Cornwall I find it hard to envisage the county initiating European social change. However that is exactly what the Truro Industrial Tribunal has done in the course of Re P versus S & Cornwall County Council. The facts about P are […]
Next month sees the first round of a three-tier High Court test case against electricity company Powergen which could cost the company over £1 million in damages. Kent farmer Dennis Clifton claims fall out from the burning of orimulsion fuel at Richborough Power Station, near Ramsgate, from 1991 until 1995, wrecked crops of brussels sprouts, […]