Jury cases which are listed for hearing in the High Court’s Queens Bench Division over the course of the next two months include: Wolfe v Morris & ors (not before 29 January); Botham v Niazi (not before 5 February); Lamb v Niazi (not before 5 February); Percy v Mirror Group Newspapers (fixed for 5 February); […]
A CONSERVATIVE MP dismissed Lord Woolf’s concerns about government plans to hand over the courts’ information technology systems to the private sector “with breath-taking arrogance”, according to the Labour Party. Michael Jack, financial secretary to the Treasury and the Minister responsible, was giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee’s inquiry into the Government’s project finance […]
Lovell White Durrant has just completed one of the largest and most complex property deals during 1995 when it advised new company Albion Property Investments on its acquisition of a £100 million property portfolio. “This is an industry first,” said property partner Simon MacDonagh. “Albion is a new company which on day one has £100 […]
MEMBERS of the British Association of Lawyer Mediators (Balm) are to gather for their first meeting this week. And civil law reformer Lord Woolf, patron of the new association, has been lined up to speak at the launch on Friday, to be held at the Law Society. Balm was formed to promote the idea of […]
SLAUGHTER and May’s multi-million pound action against former Barings auditors Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte & Touche is set for a three to four-month trial after the issue of a writ last week. The suit is on behalf of administrators Ernst & Young. Slaughters litigation partner Deborah Finkler denied the suit was merely a holding […]
The client puts the home buyer’s survey before her solicitor. “I had this done two years ago when I bought my current property,” she explains. “It didn’t show any serious damp problems. But I commissioned another survey which revealed serious rising damp and wet rot. The second team of surveyors said this should have been […]
Liability of mortgagor after indemnity policy payment Woolwich Building Society v Iain Roland Brown (1995). QBD (Waller J) 13/12/95. Whether a mortgager with negative equity was entitled to be discharged from liability for a shortfall on sale of the mortgaged property by the mortgagee on payment by insurers under an indemnity guarantee which mortgager had […]
MARTIN Luther King’s dream for civil rights was among the main topics considered by more than 1,000 US litigators at the American Bar Association’s 20th Section of Litigation meeting in Miami. A panel discussion, ‘Holding fast to the dream – a symposium on civil rights’, provoked a thoughtful analysis of 30 years of civil rights […]
A Proposed flagship Solicitors Property Centre (SPC) has collapsed and the opening date of the others has been postponed once again to next January. SPC plans to get groups of local solicitors to band together to sell property in 40 centres across England and Wales while it, as the parent company, takes on the marketing. […]
I refer to the letter in The Lawyer 23 January which expresses concern about solicitors becoming involved in giving financial advice (‘Not ready for finance advice’). While I would agree with some of what the writer says with regard to the need for control, experience and expertise, I do feel it is necessary to put […]
An Industrial Society survey recently found workplace stress to be a serious problem in 90 per cent of organisations, leading to rising absenteeism, poor productivity, and low morale. These are the damaging effects of workplace stress and the legal profession is not immune to them. Every aspect of life is a potential source of stress. […]
Norton Rose advised Foreign & Colonial Emerging Markets on the launch of its Taiwan Investment Company