Alison Laferia reports Equitrac has announced two additions to its existing network system designed to monitor use of office equipment. Equitrac Professional Internet Client (Epic) is a Web browser designed to control Internet access and track on-line research and email use. It is targeted at a market using the Internet for business communication. The browser […]
Leamington Spa Housing Association firm Wright Hassall & Co opted for a high-tech approach to stimulating debate on the Housing Bill by taking five pages of space on the Internet. The firm’s housing specialist responsible for the initiative, Jonathan Cox, commented: “We believe it is essential to influence and explain the Bill to as wide […]
YET another senior Law Society official is leaving Walter Merricks, the society’s director of professional and legal policy, bows out at the end of August to take up the post of Insurance Ombudsman. Merricks is the fifth senior Law Society bureaucrat to leave since Martin Mears’ election as president last summer. His decision comes after […]
PROFESSIONALS are increasingly being made scapegoats when things go wrong, according to Andrew Davis, new senior partner at insurance law firm Fishburn Boxer. Davis, whose appointment will take effect from the beginning of next month, sees his role as “consolidating and building upon the existing success of the firm”. He replaces existing senior partner Richard […]
Lord Chief Justice Taylor has received an honorary doctorate in civil law from City University Business School. The degree was presented to the retiring Lord Chief Justice by Professor Martin Dockray at a ceremony held at Guildhall last Friday.
Bar Council plans to defer call to the Bar are under grave threat following legal advice that it would probably be unlawful. A legal opinion delivered to the Bar Council by Michael Beloff QC said the current proposals to defer call until completion of six months pupillage were likely to cause indirect discrimination without objective […]
A DENTON Hall trainee solicitor has left London for Tokyo as the only UK lawyer to take part in an executive training programme run by the European Commission. Mark Stableford will spend 18 months in Japan, 12 of which will be taken up by extensive language and culture training. The remaining six months will be […]
The President of the Law Society, Martin Mears, has complained that prov-iders of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) enjoy a gravy train rather than provide good quality education. He is also said to favour the abolition of the CPD requirements altogether. Getting back to fundamentals, what is CPD trying to achieve? It is not designed to […]
Stephenson Harwood has fought off competition from other law firms and trademark agents to win its appointment as trade mark representative for an international conglomerate. The firm’s London-based Intellectual Property Group, led by Mark Lewis, will advise Pacific Dunlop on its extensive portfolio of trade marks. It will also handle licensing and litigation matters in […]
The market in which firms operate has gone through major changes over the last few years, reflecting change in the UK economy as a whole. But the implications of these changes have not been grasped by many lawyers yet, particularly with respect to the ending of inflation as a significant influence on the legal firm. […]
PROMINENT London legal aid solicitor Robert Winstanley has been appointed a Circuit Judge. Winstanley, who founded north London legal aid firm Winstanley Burgess with longtime friend and colleague David Burgess, has already started his new job on the South East Circuit. His appointment as a full-time judge has forced him to resign from both his […]
The key question in this year’s entrance exam for would-be solicitors will not be answered by the candidates, but by judges. The Irish Law Society’s recently amended regulations for the exam are being challenged in the Dublin High Court by more than 800 law students and graduates. And with a date for the action still […]