The dust may be settling on the legal battle by ex-Take That heart throb Robbie Williams whose anticipated four-week contract battle in the Chancery Division never got under way. But other groups are waiting in the wings to take the legal stage and one set of Seventies chart toppers is scheduled to do battle, again […]
City law firms report a significant increase in the number of approaches from banks interested in launching takeover bids for building societies or mutual insurance companies. Firms are playing a major role in advising banking predators on possible regulatory or competition issues which could become more knotty under a Labour government. “Consolidation within the financial […]
Simmons & Simmons lawyer David Sandy is hoping a New York judge will strike out charges he faces in relation to Bank of Credit and Commerce International which collapsed in 1991. Sandy is accused by the New York District Attorney of three charges relating to alleged suppression of the diary of former BCCI chief executive […]
City investors are to be offered the prospect of generous returns if they put money into a litigation fund designed to help the less well-off pursue claims through the courts. The fund is the brainchild of Brian Raincock, of Litigation Protection. The company offers insurance to litigants to protect against the risk of losing an […]
West End eight-partner entertainment firm Compton Carr has broken up with half its partners going to Holborn practice Teacher Stern Selby and the others to Charles Russell. Teachers gains three entertainment partners from Compton Carr on 1 May. However, the head of entertainment Brian Carr will join Charles Russell this week. The parting is described […]
A LEAKED internal Ministry of Defence legal report regarding its ban on homosexuals in the services has revealed the ministry will ultimately have to remove the ban even if it wins action in the UK courts. The Government would stand a better chance of winning, the document advises, by “moving towards a compromise solution, eg: […]
Freshfields has been appointed to advise the Northern Rock Building Society which is to become a bank and is seeking a stock market float in spring 1997.
Simmons & Simmons is acting for Railtrack in the company’s forthcoming flotation. Linklaters & Paines is representing the Department of Transport.
Berwin Leighton advised joint sponsors UBS and Granville in connection with the flotation of FI Group. The UK-based supplier of computer services specialises in the management of application software for major companies. The Berwins team was led by corporate finance partner John Bennett
Helen Sage reports Local government housing lawyers have welcomed the national publicity given to the eviction of nuisance neighbours from council accommodation in Manchester last week. Public sector housing solicitors hope the cases, in which Salford County Court ordered Manchester City Council to repossess the homes of a family and a teenage girl, will encourage […]
Roger Rees Keedy, 49, admitted 1979, practised as Roger Keedy & Co, Simmondley, Glossop, struck off and ordered to pay £5,071 costs. Allegations substantiated he wrongly drew and used client money, failed to maintain properly written accounts, wrongly retained money due to the Legal Aid Board, improperly retained money in breach of accounts rules. Keedy […]
Nottingham firm Ashton Bond Gigg has merged with Alan Oliver & Co, based in nearby West Bridgford. The merged seven-partner practice, which specialises in commercial law, is known as Ashton Bond Gigg. Alan Oliver, from Alan Oliver & Co, joins the firm as a partner and will work in the litigation department. The West Bridgford […]