For many firms, the Christmas party is simply a chance to thank staff for their work. But some break away from the traditional end-of-year celebrations. This summer, London firm Theodore Goddard hosted a summer beach party in its offices. “It was great fun,” says Justine Ashby, head of marketing. “We found no one is around […]
Doughty Street Chambers, the specialist civil liberties set led by Geoffrey Robertson QC, has expanded to a third building following the appointment of a new administrator and other staff. The set has now acquired 50 Doughty Street in addition to its main premises at number 11 and part of number 17. The new building has […]
Manchester law firm Philip Conn & Co has lost one of its top intellectual property partners to Alsop Wilkinson, the second IP partner to leave the firm recently. Graeme Orchison and Lee Brierley left after helping to establish the firm’s reputation as one of the leading IP practices outside London over the past few years. […]
Rob Jonckheer, a partner at Manches & Co’s Oxford office, has been sworn in as president of the Oxford and District Chamber of Commerce. Jonckheer is a specialist in corporate finance and partnership law. He said: “The Oxford Chamber has approaching 700 members – many of them world leaders in their field. Together we have […]
London firm Harbottle & Lewis was involved in a ground-breaking deal when it advised Chris Wright, chair of record company Chrysalis, on his acquisition of Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club and Wasps, the rugby union club based in Sudbury. The transaction involved the formation of a new company, Loftus Road plc, to hold shares in […]
In legal terms the lessons of the recent Court of Appeal decision in Welton v North Cornwall District Council raise interesting points about the circumstances in which local authorities can be held responsible for the actions of their officers. But in terms of the accountability of local authorities for their officers’ actions, the case sounds […]
The second reading of the draft Jersey law on Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) will be taken up again this week. In the interim, there has been an opportunity to reflect on whether the law will provide a workable solution to the problems of unlimited liability, or whether it is merely a distraction from the real […]
Steve Sidkin’s article (27 August) discusses the only two cases on the Commercial Agents Regulations to date in the UK and their deficiencies. The one question clients want answered is how much is payable in compensatory damages. It is still unclear. The recent EC report into Article 17 of the regulations is a helpful summary […]
I read with mounting concern the article by John Malpas in your edition of 30 January. I deplore the publicity that the president of the Law Society appears to have sought in criticising some members of his staff. I would have thought it was elementary common sense and the bounden duty of the president to […]
The move by Kennedys to set up an office in Belfast is a brave one, despite its unfortunate timing. The Northern Irish legal marketplace is small and difficult to penetrate. However, with increasing numbers of English companies going to the province, there is more business for one and all, although NI lawyers would be the […]
Charles Russell, acting jointly with Slaughter and May, advised Cannon Bridge Investments on the £64 million sale of Canon Bridge EC4 to Cannon Bridge Partnership – a joint venture between Pillar Property Investments and GE Pension Trust, advised by Gouldens. Travers Smith Braithwaite advised two German banks providing finance.
The reputation of the Lord Chancellor, and the livelihoods of up to 20,000 solicitors, hang in the balance this month as the controversial Family Law Bill faces its first real parliamentary test. The Bill, some 81 pages long with 60 clauses, is seen by some worried family law practitioners as the beginning of a shift […]