Issues

In the North East focus in The Lawyer 30 January 1996, Commercial Union should have been listed as having Sheffield firm Keeble Hawson on its panel of legal advisers.

British Nuclear Fuels solicitor Edward Smethurst has become the new chair of the north-west branch of the Law Society’s Commerce and Industry Group. Smethurst takes over from Barry Lewis, of CIS, who has been chair of the group for the last four years. The north-west group represents about 300 solicitors working in industry and commerce. […]

A RUSSIAN attorney with an international reputation for his specialist trade mark expertise has joined the Moscow office of Baker & McKenzie as a partner. Eugene Arievich is heading the office’s intellectual property practice. He joins Baker & McKenzie from Intels, a firm co-founded by Arievich in 1988 which has established eight offices in the […]

The former corporate lawyer for UK publishing company VNU Holding, Jane Gill, has been appointed as Channel 5 Broadcasting’s company secretary and head of business affairs. Before joining VNU Holding, Gill was head of legal services and secretary at International Family Entertainment. She has also worked for Mersey Television/Brookside Productions and New Media Age.

In December 1995, the Jersey Finance and Economics Committee announced its intention to introduce legislation permitting the registration of limited liability partnerships (LLPs) in the island. This initiative followed the introduction of LLP law in the US state of Delaware, where the American partnerships of all the big six accounting firms have registered. The Jersey […]

DEMONSTRATORS could soon be descending on the Royal Courts of Justice as part of a campaign to get the Lord Chancellor thrown out of the Cabinet. Action for Justice has launched a national petition campaign aimed at mustering support for its bid to secure a complete separation of powers between the judiciary and the executive. […]

Hull law firm Rollit Farrell & Bladon has linked up with independent financial adviser Fraser Smith Group to set up a financial service division. Fraser Smith will permanently base one adviser in the law firm’s Hull office as part of the joint venture. The law firm, which previously used the Solicitors Financial and Property Services, […]

Mary Heaney reports Research by the Association of Policy Market Makers among its members shows that the market in Traded Endowment Policies (TEPs) has grown by 15 per cent in the past year. However, the chair of the association Tony Vincent estimates that around £600 million of tradeable policies are still surrendered direct to life […]

A FORMER Law Lord has demanded to know why Lord Mackay is taking so long to reach a decision over rights of audience for employed solicitors. Lord Ackner has tabled two probing House of Lords questions in an effort to prise an explanation for the “delays” in coming to a decision over the advice the […]

The confidentiality of Jersey as a financial centre is occasionally questioned. This is especially true today, as differences between Jersey and UK law are brought into the public arena by cases involving disclosure of information under modern fraud legislation. Jersey lawyers have become familiar with names such as Norwich Pharmacal, Banker’s Trust and Anton Piller, […]

Helen Sage reports TEAMS of specialist local authority lawyers who deal with child care work will be disbanded under new council reforms, giving rise to concern over the provision of child care services. The units, which were set up in 1989 after alleged child abuse in Cleveland, will cease to exist from the end of […]