A SOLICITOR whose process server was accused in the press of serving a writ on an unconscious cancer patient, and was subsequently criticised as acting in “an appalling way” by a fellow lawyer, has hit back at his critics. Aubrey Isaacson, who runs a practice of the same name in Prestwich, Manchester, has complained to […]
Basildon man Martyn Smith who was badly hurt in a car accident is suing Helen Girling, of Ingatestone, Essex, the driver of the other vehicle in the December 1992 crash, for compensation. Smith, 25 at the time of the crash, suffered a serious lower back injury and a whiplash injury, for which prognosis is guarded […]
A DEEP rift among the Lord Chancellor’s advisers on rights of audience which first emerged last year over in-house lawyers’ rights has resurfaced again amid claims the majority has not “adequately performed its role”. The latest split in the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (Aclec) is over its rejection of an […]
With the legal profession becoming increasingly involved in the provision of investment advice in-house, law firms are faced with the challenge of recruiting technically qualified and culturally compatible financial advisers. Experience has shown that finding the right person can prove more time consuming and traumatic for law firms than any other aspect of the development […]
Robert David Norman Lowe, 44, admitted 1981, practised as partner in Lester Aldridge of Bournemouth, struck off and ordered to pay £943. Allegations substantiated he had been jailed for seven months last year after pleading guilty at Bournemouth Crown Court to fraudulent evasion of prohibition or restriction on the importation of indecent and obscene material. […]
A libel action struck out by the High Court in 1992 for want of prosecution is to come under the scrutiny of the Law Lords. Although the Court of Appeal backed the High Court ruling the Law Lords have given leave for Felix Fareed Ismail Grovit to question whether the case should have been struck […]
THE NEWLY-formed Medical Negligence Defence Solicitors’ Group has called for the legal profession to be properly trained in dealing with medical negligence cases. The proposal was made in a paper put to Lord Woolf by the group, which was founded at the end of last year to represent solicitors acting for defendants in medical negligence […]
Ross Wellman is a senior solicitor in the property department of Davies Wallis Foyster’s Manchester office. Born in Salisbury in 1959, he now lives in Macclesfield. What was your first job? Self-employed, selling reject tennis balls and foreign coins at school. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £4,250. What would you have […]
McKenna & Co has clinched another three City deals on behalf of emerging companies specialising in biotechnology and pharmaceutical research. The transactions mark another milestone in the career of the firm’s veteran biotech partner Julian Thurston. Thurston cut his teeth on one of the earliest biotech companies to float on the stock market, Celltech, listed […]
Allen & Overy acted for British Aerospace on the $600 million syndicated financing for Trident Group. Slaughter and May acted for the arranging banks
The profession is preparing itself for the publication of the White Paper on legal aid this week. Barristers and solicitors are united in opposition to the widely-leaked proposals for cash-limiting and block contracts for franchised firms. Speaking at the Legal Action Group’s conference on legal aid franchising last week, the Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay urged […]
Bristol University has won a national mooting competition sponsored by Lovell White Durrant. Sixty-four institutions took part in this year’s Observer/English Speaking Union/Lovell White Durrant competition, the only national mooting event. The winning team was Chris Bailey, leader for the appellants, and Bernard Robinson, junior. The two beat Corryne MacLean, leader for the respondent, and […]