Mediators in the US are gearing up to start training courses at India’s new International Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ICADR). The training will be provided by the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution, part of Pepperdine University’s school of law in California. Tim Pownal, associate director of the institute, said the Asian Development Bank had […]
The aim of an expert witness is to put forward facts which can bear the scrutiny of cross-examination in court. The admissibility of evidence is not, in theory, something which he should be concerned with. However, it must be remembered that it is primarily from the evidence provided that an expert is able to form […]
Two of Richards Butler’s lawyers in Hong Kong have been made partners in the firm, bringing the number of partners in the office to 17. Penelope Chan, who started with the firm as a trainee, specialises in corporate finance work in Hong Kong and China. She has extensive experience with large stock exchange share issues. […]
A SCHEME to allow Citizens’ Advice Bureaux direct access to barristers was set to be given the go-ahead at a Bar Council meeting over the weekend. The plan is designed to boost access to justice at a time when the profession is coming under increasing pressure to provide better services for less money. A report, […]
Bank’s claim against a local authority over rate swaps Kleinwort Benson v Birmingham City Council (1996). CA (Evans LJ, Saville LJ and Morritt LJ) 9/5/96. Summary: Bank’s claim to recover money lent to a local authority for ultra vires rate swap transactions upheld on the local authority’s appeal. Birmingham City Council’s appeal against the judgment […]
Personal injury and medical negligence lawyer Andrew Urbanek gives an object lesson in how to avoid being sued for serving pear and almond tart with a smattering of Amaretto ice cream. In an upcoming episode of BBC’s Masterchef, to be shown on 2 June, Urbanek (right), a partner at London firm Cartwright Cunningham Haselgrove & […]
City firm Nabarro Nathanson has clocked up its 18th flotation on the Alternative Investment Market where it acted for packaging group CA Coutts, valued at about £10 million. The firm boasts an impressive list of clients on the AIM, the market for smaller companies which is part of the London Stock Exchange. Its most high […]
When David Telling, a principal lecturer at the Inns of Court School of Law, started out on a 40-mile marathon, there were prayers that he would finish. When he did, more than eight hours later, hymns were sung in the streets. Telling ran the double-marathon distance alone to raise more than £1,500 for restoration work […]
Alison Laferla reports A trade association to boost the image of legal software suppliers has been launched. The Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA) replaces the Association of Legal Technology Suppliers (ALTS), whose members were severely criticised by the Law Society last November. ALTS voted to replace itself with the new organisation in March. John Meehan, […]
Lord Woolf’s inquiry is nearing completion. His interim report, Access to Justice, was published last June and the final report will be submitted to the Lord Chancellor this summer. Christopher Style, a litigation partner at Linklaters & Paines, discusses with Lord Woolf a number of issues of concern to litigators. You are proposing a pretty […]
Following Lord Taylor’s announcement he will be standing down, Lord Mackay has consulted widely over who should be the next Lord Chief Justice. The Lawyer has made its own enquiries on the views of “the great and the good”. Geoffrey Bindman, senior partner of civil liberties firm Bindman & Partners, wants the new Lord Chief […]
Edward Bishop is a member of No 1 Serjeants’ Inn, London. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner could be forgiven for thinking that the world is against him. Only two weeks after a jury, on 26 April, awarded £220,000 to a hairdresser for wrongful arrest and assault, Daniel Goswell was awarded £302,000, having been hit over the […]