LONDON lawyer David Price claims to be the first solicitor advocate to have acted as the sole advocate within the civil division of the Courts of Appeal. Price, of David Price & Co, appeared as advocate for the respondent in an appeal brought by the City of London Police. The case followed Price’s client, Nigel […]
A Lawyer who practises fire arms law has expressed his concern about hastily made controls on the licensing of handguns. Peter Burton, a consultant at London firm Gilchrists who specialises in gun law, is worried that the “media hype” over gun law in the wake of the Dunblane tragedy will spark ill thought out, knee […]
A case in which four Sheffield police officers are suing their Chief Constable and South Yorkshire Police Authority for damages in a dispute over housing allowances is heading for the High Court. The four who gave up jobs to join the South Yorkshire Force claim they were told they would be entitled to housing allowance […]
Helen Sage reports The London Borough of Merton is looking for a new solicitor to head its legal services department. Its previous head, Peter Large, left earlier this month after three years as senior solicitor. Neither Merton’s press office or the legal services department were prepared to comment upon his departure or to disclose where […]
Most solicitors agree that conveyancing fees are too low, considering the amount of time and effort put into the work and the responsibility involved. The fees debate has also put the standards of conveyancing under the spotlight. These vary greatly and there is an urgent need to ensure clients know what they are entitled to […]
The first structured settlement in a High Court personal injury case was in 1989 and it irrevocably changed the world of PI litigation. Structuring immediately became the buzz word on the lips of all involved in the field. Since then, although the structuring bubble has not burst it has become somewhat deflated. An unpredictable financial […]
McIntyre v Filtrona – Court of Appeal 12 March 199Claimant: Dorothy McIntyre, 47 Incident: Claimant claimed she suffered Carpal Tunnel Syndrome after years of repetitive work making cigarette filters Injuries: Agonising pain in wrist; no feeling in fingers; difficulty in sleeping; operative treatment necessary Award: £750 at Newcastle County Court (July 1995); award set aside […]
London media firm Olswang has abandoned the traditional colour shots of pin-stripe suited partners for a new brochure aimed at attracting recruits. “Our trainees tell us that what they would have found most useful was a chat with some of our present trainees to find out what being a trainee at Olswang is really about,” […]
City firm Nicholson Graham & Jones is relocating its offices under one roof to accommodate its expanding staff numbers. The new Cannon Street office will be ready by June and will house the firm’s 220 staff currently in Moorgate and the West End offices together with a new IT system. The practice has expanded from […]
I should like to endorse the sentiment of the headline to your leading article (The Lawyer19 March), ‘No call for secrecy’ and your related front page article. There is no “can of worms”; details of the training scheme have been in the public domain for some time. The Crown Prosecution Service has no plans to […]
Helen Sage is right to draw attention to the lack of accreditation of experts, particularly in medicine (The Lawyer 12 March). She quotes me in this regard, upon the Law Society Directory of Experts, recently published by FT Law & Tax. I am alleged to have said the directory is “not worth the paper it […]
Lord Ackner has rightly posed the question on the delay in reaching a decision over rights of audience for employed solicitors. Almost a year has passed since the controversial advice given to Lord Mackay by the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Aclec). At that time the majority of the group rejected […]