The chair of Edinburgh firm Lindsays WS, John Elliot, has been appointed vice-president of the Law Society of Scotland. Elliot joined the society five years ago and was first elected to the council as a representative for the Edinburgh area in 1990. He was elected for a second three-year term in 1993. His appointment will […]
CITY firm Titmuss Sainer Dechert expects a steady flow of property work to come from the addition of seven real estate lawyers to US firm Dechert Price & Rhoads. Titmuss Sainer Dechert has a fully integrated international practice with the US firm and it is expected that this will result in a merger within the […]
Top holiday company Thomson Tour Operations is being sued by a young couple whose 1993 holiday in Torremolinos, Spain, ended in terror when fire broke out at their hotel. Keith and Toni Austin, from Romford, Essex, risked their lives in a bid to alert other hotel residents after fire alarms failed to work. But the […]
John Malpas reports GEORGE Carman QC’s New Court Chambers has moved from the Temple to a newly refurbished home in Gray’s Inn. The move to Verulam Buildings allows the set to put all 26 tenants under one roof. The set, which has produced a new logo to coincide with the move, says it needed more […]
John Malpas reports British Airways chair Sir Colin Marshall is to deliver the Chancery Bar Association’s Spring Lecture next week. Marshall, president-designate of the CBI, will examine the relationship between the law and international trade. His lecture ‘The Law: highway or byway to the global market?’ is on Wednesday 24 April at 6pm in the […]
Steven Turnbull and Patrick Wrignell from Linklaters & Paines and Nigel Boardman and Frances Murphy from Slaughter and May headed rival teams of lawyers who struck the £520 million agreed take-over of Unitech by Siebe. Engineering company Siebe, headed by Barrie Stephens, was represented by Linklaters while Slaughters acted for Unitech, an electronics group with […]
Small businesses will be able to draw on funds from eight new venture capital trusts launched in the last fortnight. Merchant bank Guinness Mahon, which has raised £9 million for one of the new trusts, said lawyers advising smaller companies should be aware about “this important new source of venture capital”. Venture capital trusts were […]
HAMMOND Suddards has acquired Forsyte Saunders Kerman’s Lloyd’s of London insurance team in a move designed to boost its insurance operations across the UK. Both sides declined to reveal the asking price which included Forsyte Saunders office in the Lloyd’s building, open for little more than a year. Chair of Forsyte Saunders’ partnership board Paul […]
Incorrect procedures used to select jurors at the Crown Court centre in Stoke-on-Trent could lead to a series of appeals. The centre, in the Midlands and Oxford Circuit, was investigated by staff of chief executive of the court service, Michael Huebner, after the son of a member of court staff served as a juror on […]
On 1 April, a new compensation scheme for victims of violent crime came into force. The Government says the new scheme, which is based on set tariffs for each type of injury, will speed up the process of compensation and make it more equitable. Victim Support fears that the motive behind the scheme may be […]
TWO Manchester firms have demerged in a dramatic split which came just 29 days after they originally joined forces. Donn & Co said it instigated the demerger with Philip Conn & Co after taking counsel’s advice on details that emerged after the merger had taken place. But in a statement, Philip Conn & Co said […]
THE PRESIDENTIAL working party dedicated to stemming the flow of trainee solicitors has been disbanded due to “internal divisions”. Martin Mears, the president of the Law Society, has written to group members saying it could do no further useful work. “It is clear from the communications I have received from some members of the working […]