Black v Webb & anr – QBD, 9 October 1996 Claimant: Michael Black, 6Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Claimant, a world acclaimed sculptor, injured when his car was struck from behind by a baker’s van on the M4 in 1991. Incident said to have resulted in injuries that have taken away his ability to work. […]
Refusal of health authority to provide various therapies R v The Brent and Harrow Health Authority, ex parte the London Borough of Harrow (1996)
Lawyers representing council housing tenants have been accused of applying for funds to the Legal Aid Board before informing council landlords of disrepair problems in a effort to ensure they get paid. Tameside Metropolitan Borough solicitor Jo Bezzano has complained about the practice to the Legal Aid Board, saying tenants’ lawyers are keen to go […]
A personal injuries tribunal that will operate without lawyers is to be established in Ireland in an effort to cut the cost of insurance claims. Its aim will be to deal with compensation cases arising from motoring and workplace accidents in which liability is not disputed, and where both parties have agreed to adjudication. No […]
Mercury Computing has added new functions to its workflow management software, InControl Legal, that are designed to appeal to City and commercial practices. InControl Legal is an information management system designed to help solicitors manage their workloads and simplify quality assurance and legal aid franchise requirements. The system is compatible with most software packages and […]
Staffordshire County Council solicitor David Brammer is training for a 340km cycle ride around the Dead Sea in a bid to raise funds for a cancer charity. He will set out on 23 November with around 50 other Britons who are seeking to raise £200,000 for the Cancer Relief MacMillan Fund. Brammer is well on […]
The promise of full funding to implement radical changes to the civil justice system will mean a drain on resources in other areas, according to the Law Society. Responding to the Lord Chancellor’s outline strategy for introducing changes within two years, a spokeman for the Law Society said that, although it welcomed the Lord Chancellor’s […]
The legal team undoubtedly played a major role in steering the recent case, of a Norfolk couple whose luxury home at Wroxham was blighted by bypass plans, back before the Parliamentary Ombudsman. But, in what is regarded as a case that breaks new ground in respect of the legal right to overturn the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s […]
A COUNCIL is launching the latest in a series of court battles to preserve a traditional market’s historic monopoly. East Staffordshire Borough Council has applied to the High Court for an injunction to prevent a market from setting up in Uttoxeter as a rival to the council market, which has a charter granted in the […]
Stephen Isherwood has joined Manchester law firm Vaudreys as a partner in the corporate department. Isherwood has left the Manchester office of Peter Rickson and partners. He will replace Paul Brown, who himself left Vaudreys last month to go to neighbouring firm Cobbetts.
This Thursday will see judicial review moves at the High Court by veteran anti-Sunday trading campaigner and retired solicitors clerk Roy Edey. This time Edey, along with his wife Marilyn, will be taking on Harrow School authorities. He is seeking a ruling that a county court order for damages after the school took possession of […]
GARY STREETER, Lord Mackay’s parliamentary secretary, is to travel to Birmingham, home of a long-running legal aid franchising boycott, in an attempt to promote the Government’s planned reforms to legal aid. But Birmingham Law Society, which is arranging an open forum with Streeter, has already warned that if he expects merely to explain how the […]