Watson, Farley & Williams has appointed Richard Jarashow as a partner in its New York office. He will work in the practice’s maritime and commercial litigation group, headed by Al Yudes. Jarashow joins the 1990-established, 10-partner New York practice from New York maritime firm Haight Gardner Poor and Havens. Watson, Farley & Williams’ senior partner, […]
Ronald Thwaites QC has dropped plans to take further constitutional or legal action against the Bar Council over its plans to introduce a revamped complaints scheme involving fines for a new complaint of inadequate professional services. Thwaites, who led a successful campaign against the scheme in an open meeting last year, said his decision was […]
BIRMINGHAM firm Martineau Johnson has launched an Automotive Group in celebration of the centenary of the UK car industry. The group, which brings together lawyers from different disciplines with expertise in the motor sector, will provide a specialist service for the industry. Members will deal with issues including trade marks, design rights, dealer franchising and […]
Paul Kitson is a partner at Russell Jones & Walker. Last December, Kelvin Page was awarded £997,000 for a severe head injury. Page, a steelworker, was speared by a red hot steel bar, which penetrated his brain. He will never work again. He was 24 at the time of the accident and 28 at the […]
NORTHERN Ireland practitioners will be able to access full law reports later this year for the first time in five years. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLRNI) ceased to produce twice-yearly annotated and edited judgments as full reports in 1991. At the end of 1993, it stopped producing its 10-per-year “blue books” – bulletins […]
Lawyers defending Clifford Chance against the £610 million action by four Canadian banks in the wake of the Canary Wharf collapse will argue in an Ontario hearing that the action should be fought in the UK. The firm, which denies any liability, has not ruled out a counter claim against Canadian Davies Ward & Beck, […]
Since only death and taxes are certain in life, one would think chancery practice would be a particularly lucrative area of practice for barristers and solicitors. Surprisingly, most solicitors in the area say it is a “steady” source of work rather than a buoyant one. The substantive (and cosmetic) changes in the 1980s introduced by […]
FOUR CITY firms have been instrumental in forcing the Government to reconsider its provision for dealing with social landlords in the current Housing Bill. Warner Cranston, Clifford Chance, Berwin Leighton and Allen & Overy wrote to the Government and the Opposition outlining concerns about the legislation which would unintentionally prevent housing associations borrowing money and […]
Conditions for terminating a secure tenancy Greenwich London Borough Council v Regan (1996). CA (Millett LJ and Ward LJ) 31/1/96. Summary: The suspension of a possession order pending payment of rent arrears does not create a new tenancy but the existing tenancy continues under s.85(2) Housing Act 1985 until the warrant for possession is executed. […]
John Malpas reports THE BAR association fighting for a share of international copyright, communications, entertainment, technology and trade- mark work, has announced its aims for the first time. A soon-to-be published mission statement from the two-year-old CentreBar association reads: “A perfectly competitive market in legal, as in other, services requires that consumers of those services […]
Helen Sage reports Laserforms for Windows, the software for filling out forms on computer screen, has won the Outstanding Technology Award from the Society for Computers and Law. The prestigious award was presented to Laserforms’ managing director Barry Hawley-Green by Lord Woolf on 5 February. The ceremony took place at the Law Society. John Irving, […]
Helen Sage reports Mayfair firm Jeffrey Green Russell has helped the Ernest Bevin School in Tooting to set up its own Internet pages on the World Wide Web, making it the first state school in the UK to establish its own site. The initiative was prompted by the deputy head teacher’s daughter, Jade, who secured […]