LEEDS law firm Booth & Co has published its accounts, saying it is breaking new ground in openness for clients. The firm believes it is the first law practice to publish accounts showing profits both before and after partners’ salaries, pensions and benefits have been taken into account. Booth & Co recorded a profit of […]
CLIFFORD Chance is being sued for about £1 million over allegations that it acted negligently by failing to implement the final wishes of the late property millionaire Eric Hopton. The writ also names David Bowyer, former head of Clifford Chance’s private client division and currently with City firm Withers. The case is expected to attract […]
A Canterbury woman who claims she was not properly anaesthetised when her baby was delivered by caesarean is taking East Kent Health Authority to the High Court. Gillian Miles claims she was admitted to William Harvey Hospital in Willesborough, Ashford, Kent, for a caesarean section and was given an epidural injection. However, she claims she […]
Every practising firm has recently received the eighth annual report of the Solicitor’s Indemnity Fund for the year ended 31 August 1995. This 26-page report is crammed with statistics and analyses. For instance, in the eight-year period to the 31 August 1995, paid claims amounted to £513.6 million, an average of £18,073 per case. And […]
Now that David Penry-Davey has added his voice to the scream of disapproval coming from the higher echelons of the profession against Michael Howard’s tougher sentencing proposals, surely the Home Secretary will sit up and listen. The Bar Council chair represents a body that knows the system first hand – a body that counts the […]
Peter Cole is national managing partner at Eversheds. Born in Axminster, Devon, in 1942, he now lives in Edale, Derbyshire. What was your first job? Pebble picker. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £10 per week. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? Become a very good pebble […]
A specialist lawyer in the discrimination field believes the future pattern of claims over discrimination is set for change. She envisages an increase in the number of ‘white v black’ and ‘male v female’ claims. At the same time though, she stresses that claims based on sex rather than race discrimination predominate. After her involvement […]
Olswang acted for advertising agency M&C Saatchi Worldwide in the exchange of a leasing agreement for a new headquarters at 36 Golden Square, London W1.
Herbert Smith acted for Life Assurance Holding Corporation in relation to its recent syndicated borrowing of £135 million
Clifford Chance advised Wates City of London Properties on its recent purchase of the freehold of Britannic Tower, Moor Lane, London EC2 from British Petroleum. Linklaters & Paines advised BP.
Specialist aviation lawyer Mike Butler, a consultant with Crawley firm Burstows, is steering the development of aviation law in the Eastern bloc. Butler is part of a team advising the Ukraine ministry of transport on regulating the airline industry and developing aviation regulations. The Lithuanian ministry of transport is using Butler’s advice on implementing a […]
LONDON solicitors and barristers are being invited to go Dutch to continue a 30-year friendship. Exchanges between Dutch and English lawyers have been taking place since 1966 and will continue between 6 and 11 May when up to 100 English lawyers visit The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The five-day programme will include a reception at […]