Pending jury trials in the Queen’s Bench Division include: Flavin v Gould; Brown v Commissioner of Police for Metropolis; Christie v News Group Newspapers; Executive Telecommunications v British Telecommunications; Ludford v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis. All cases are marked to be heard not before the new legal term on 16 April.
NORTHERN Ireland firms Wilson Nesbitt and Greene & Gribbon are merging to form one of the province’s top five practices. News of the merger rekindled speculation that more mergers may be in the pipeline and speculation is mounting that two other firms in the province are talking about an alliance. There are 400 firms in […]
THE BRITISH South African Lawyers Association (BSALA) has pledged to raise £25,000 to fund the training of two South African lawyers from disadvantaged groups. The lawyers will be trained through the candidate attorney programme run by the Legal Resources Centre, the largest independent non-profit making law centre in South Africa. BSALA chair Michael Polonsky, of […]
INSURANCE law specialist Richard Evans has been elected to head the London Solicitors Litigation Association. Evans, senior litigation partner at the City firm Beachcroft Stanleys, replaces Michael Seymour at the head of the group, which aims to promote “the efficient conduct of civil litigation in London”. He will be at the helm for a two-year […]
LONDON lawyers have ended months of negotiation over payment for photocopying copyrighted materials. And lawyers all over the country are expected to follow suit by the end of the month. The Copyright Licensing Association (CLA) has drawn up model agreements in which London firms pay £12 per professional employee every year to compensate writers whose […]
THE SEXUAL Orientation Discrimination Bill looks set to be approved by the House of Lords. Lady Turner’s private member’s Bill has passed its committee and report stage and is expected to pass its third reading on 1 May. The Bill would amend the Sex Discrimination Act and make it unlawful for employers to discriminate on […]
PRELIMINARY hearings into the Dunblane massacre of 16 children and a school teacher will open on 1 May. Lawyers representing individuals or groups involved or interested will make submissions to the preliminary hearing to resolve questions of procedure and representation. Lord Cullen, head of the inquiry, will then decide who will be heard at the […]
US attorney Felicia Blakley-Jackson is requalifying while working with Manchester commercial law firm Davies Wallis Foyster. Blakley-Jackson handled real estate security work in California when she was working for Los Angeles firm Bronson Bronson & McKinnon. The US attorney has a masters degree in real estate development.
A legal challenge over compensation for a group of Welsh bus drivers who were sacked after industrial action is to be considered by the House of Lords. And it is an action seen as a test case in employment circles which could strengthen or diminish the compensation rights of all workers who have been sacked […]
Christopher Michael Still, 50, admitted 1970, practised at material time under his own name in Brighton, struck off and ordered to pay £2,917 costs. Allegations substantiated he used client funds for his own purposes and those of other clients, wrongly drew client account money, failed to keep properly written accounts. Tribunal told activities had led […]
John Malpas reports THE FAIRNESS of County Court judgments could be put at risk if Lord Woolf’s fast-track litigation plans go ahead unamended, claims a London barristers’ group. The London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association has questioned the ability of district judges to cope with the demands of the planned new fast-track system for […]
Kathryn Birchwood is an assistant solicitor in the litigation department at Travers Smith Braithwaite. In Condliffe v Hislop (1996), the Court of Appeal had to consider whether an order for security for costs should be made against a bankrupt individual plaintiff on the grounds that the action was being maintained by his mother. The court […]