A LEADING European law chambers has appointed its first practice manager. Former Norton Rose solicitor Milly Ayliffe is due to take up her new post at Four Raymond Buildings on Monday this week. “The brief is a marketing one,” she said. “The chambers is keen to act as a corporate body, it recognises this is […]
Jonathan Arkush is a barrister at 11 Stone Buildings. The House of Lords’ decision in Hindcastle v Attenborough Associates is significant for its rejection of the long-standing Court of Appeal authority in Stacey v Hill (1901) 1 QB 660 which prevented a landlord from suing a guarantor for an original tenant who became insolvent while […]
Test for recalling a life prisoner from parole R v Parole Board, ex parte David Adam Watson (1996). CA (Sir Thomas Bingham MR, Rose LJ and Roch LJ). Summary: Recalling a life prisoner from parole although no criminal offence was actually proved against him nor any breach of any condition in his licence established. Appeal […]
I read your article in March with some interest (The Lawyer 5 March ‘Apil slams unreal Woolf paper’). I have re-qualified in England having previously qualified in Northern Ireland. The system in Northern Ireland is somewhat different from that of England. First, the population in Northern Ireland is very much more “personal injury claim conscious” […]
Yet again the former CPS barrister Neil Addison has opened a can of worms, speaking out on a streamlining exercise at the Crown Prosecution Service which could have resounding effects on its use of lawyers. Although the CPS has denied the accusation that it is seeking to upgrade clerks to carry out magistrates court work […]
The latest move by Price Waterhouse is the clearest indication yet that accountancy firms are seriously positioning themselves for an onslaught on the legal market. Accountancy firms have been very successful in the legal markets of countries such as France and Spain, and there is no reason why, with the right resources, they should not […]
John Bishop is a barrister and head of chambers at 7 Stone Buildings in London. He was born in Whitstable, Kent, in 1947 and still lives there. What was your first job? Freezing peas and beans. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? What’s a salary? What would you have done if you […]
Day v 266 Operations Battery Royal Artillery and Brandon Hire – QBD (sitting in Bristol) 11 March 1996 Claimant: Andrew Day, 28 Incident: Claimant was attending Territorial Army ball and fell from bouncy castle Injuries: Neck broken; paralysis below waist and right upper limbs; settlement takes into account loss of earnings as garden centre manager […]
The Law Lords have granted leave for an appeal in the case of Anthony Glasford Powell who, along with another, was convicted at the Old Bailey on 28 February 1994 of the murder of a small-time drugs dealer. He was jailed for life with a recommendation that he serve a minimum term of 20 years. […]
AN UPBEAT verdict has been pronounced by the UK’s leading woman judge on the progress made by the Bar’s women’s group since it was founded five years ago. Appeal Court judge Lady Justice Butler-Sloss was one of the guests at the Association of Women Barristers’ fifth anniversary celebrations held last month. She told the group […]
NOTTINGHAM Law School has followed the College of Law in giving a thumbs up to the new Legal Practice Course. A survey carried out by the school among 2,633 trainees and solicitor supervisors from the top 100 firms, revealed over 75 per cent of supervisors were satisfied with the levels of knowledge shown by trainees […]
BUILDING lawyers have received a pasting for being expensive, unprofessional and superior in a poll of the UK’s major contractors. A “deep dissatisfaction” with the legal profession is displayed in the survey in the New Civil Engineer magazine. The magazine questioned the country’s top 60 contractors on their attitude towards their lawyers. Cost was a […]