Sarah Reade is an assistant solicitor in theintellectual property department at Theodore Goddard. She took some time out to try on a selection of the latest shirt designs at Madeleine Hamilton’s. “I don’t normally wear shirts, although I have always liked them, ” she says. “Usually I wear bodies because they need minimum maintenance, especially […]
THE IRISH Law Society has been told that unless it takes speedy action to control solicitors who tout for business, parliament will be forced to do the job through statutory regulations. The warning has been given by an Irish government backbencher, deputy Eric Byrne, of Dublin, who claimed a small number of solicitors were “latching […]
MEDIA intrusion into privacy came under scrutiny at a Chancery Bar Association seminar which tackled confidentiality and the Press. Peter Preston, editor-in-chief of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, was a special guest at the debate on ‘Confidentiality, privacy and the Press’, which was held at Lincoln’s Inn’s Old Hall last Tuesday. The debate was […]
The last thing a junior barrister wants is a new wig. “The darker and older looking the better,” says Jonathan Hill, sales consultant in the legal department clothing at Thresher and Glenny. Unlike the rest of a barristers’ apparel, the state of the wig is not judged by how clean it looks but how aged […]
THE shooting of Sinclair Roche & Temperley solicitor John Hyden in Russia last week will not lead to the firm diminishing its Moscow presence. Sinclair Roche spokesman Pat Adamson said the firm had not increased security since the shooting and intended to keep its Moscow office open. He said providing security to prevent Hyden’s death […]
AROUND 250 firms have registered to join a scheme which offers after-the-event funding to litigants without the means to pursue claims. LawAssist, the litigation costs plan offered by Greystoke Legal Services, aims to help individuals who do not qualify for free legal aid and who do not have the savings to risk taking court action […]
Moves are pending in the High Court which could in some cases land local authorities with obligations to fund care outside the UK. Mr Justice Tuckey has paved the way for a case in which a 63-year-old stroke victim, originally from Tipperary in the Irish Republic, believes the London Borough of Camden should pay for […]
Jury cases listed for hearing in the Queen’s Bench Division include: Spencer v Express Newspapers (18 March); Botham v Niazi (13 May); Lamb v Niazi (13 May); Hossain v Lloyds Bank (not before 4 March); Reid v Campbell and anor (not before 4 March); Cofie-Agyeman and anor v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis (not […]
THERE is no room for Euro-sceptics in personal injury law. That will be one of the messages at the first ever Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil) European Conference. Personal injury specialists from France, Germany, Holland and Spain are expected at the two-day gathering in Windsor, Surrey, which starts on 8 March. Speakers include Apil […]
A MEMBER of one of Martin Mears’ presidential working parties has accused the group of trying to impose a quota on new trainees “via the back door”. Damaging divisions within the working party on entry to the profession are exposed in a letter published in this week’s The Lawyer by Peter Crawford, of London firm […]
The publication of the consultative paper on open-ended investment companies (OEICs) by the Securitys and Investments Board (SIB) in October last year, means that considerable progress has now been made towards finalising the regulatory framework for the introduction of OEICs into the UK savings market. Over the past few years, pressure has grown in the […]
CITY firm Davies Arnold Cooper has criticised what it calls the Law Society’s approach of emphasising what is good for lawyers instead of concentrating on what clients want. In a speech called ‘Legal fees – getting more for your money’ last week, senior partner David McIntosh launched the firm’s latest cost control protocol. The protocol […]