A statutory tenancy battle involving a chalet site in south Wales is going to the House of Lords. Leave has been granted for lease-holders of chalets on the site to challenge a Court of Appeal ruling on 28 July last year, which set aside Swansea County Court’s refusal to grant a possession order to site […]
John Malpas reports A RIFT between the Bar Council and the personal injury barristers’ group over model conditional fee terms of engagement appears to have been healed. The Bar Council has given its qualified approval to model terms of engagement which were unilaterally adopted by the Personal Injury Bar Association (Piba) last year. The Bar’s […]
CITY practice McKenna & Co acted for the Department of Transport on the £2.7 billion Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) contract, awarded last week to London & Continental Railways. The firm was engaged by the department in December 1993 after beating off three other contenders. It worked alongside consultants Hill Samuel Bank and G Maunsell […]
A white, genderless ghost was keeping a close eye on the bookkeeping practices of Manchester-based firm Otten Penna & Co, before being asked to leave by the local priest. Partners Guy Otten and Jai Penna called on Reverend Greg Foster for help when they discovered their bookkeeper had been troubled for six months by a […]
THE ROMANIAN government has appointed Stephen Tromans of Simmons & Simmons as its consultant adviser as part of a comprehensive review and overhaul of environmental legislation. Tromans, a partner and head of the environmental law department, forms part of a team co-ordinated by Harvard University’s Institute for International Development. The institute is funded by the […]
The myth of the common law wife is being dispelled by the Solicitors Family Law Association in this year’s roadshow, ‘There is no such thing as a common law wife’. The roadshow will travel the country during the next two months discussing cohabitation settlements and concentrating on property, children and domestic violence. Grant Howell, chair […]
WRITS Headline writers in the national tabloid press had a field day after the recent Court of Appeal ruling that two homeless HIV victims, one Italian the other Spanish, are entitled to council housing in the UK. However, Saimo Chahal, a partner at London firm Bindman & Partners who represented one of the men, believes […]
Smith v Storey – QBD 5 February Claimant: Sandra Smith, 30, on behalf of estate of deceased common law husband Gordon Smith, 2Incident: Motorcyclist in head-on collision with van Injuries: Fatal injuries – dead man left 30-year-old wife and son aged 14 months Award: £70,000 (agreed damages); wife to receive £56,000 with a further £14,000 […]
THE SOLICITOR who applied for legal aid so an armed robber could sue the Metropolitan Police Force for £250,000 damages could be reported to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau. The board suspended its grant of legal aid to Steve Charalambous, secured by his solicitor Naheed Faizafzal, of Joseph Hill & Co in north London, so it […]
A NEW London law firm has grown from two partners to six in its first 10 months of operation. Lloyd & Associates also expects a turnover of more than £1 million within its first 18 months. The South Kensington practice was established in May last year by John Lloyd and Meena Heath, both of Lloyd […]
With thousands of companies from all over the world taking exhibition stands or sending delegates to MIPIM, the pressure mounts each year to come up with ways of catching the attention of potential clients. Few can rival the City of London and the London Docklands Development Corporation, which teamed up a couple of years ago […]
Anthony Noel Hackett-Jones, 52, admitted 1969, practised as Hacketts or Hackett-Jones & Foley, Ipswich, refused restoration to roll and ordered to pay £850 costs. Applicant removed own name from the roll in November 1993 and in 1995 was sentenced to three years prison after conviction at Southwark Crown Court of conspiracy to defraud. Conviction arose […]