Duncan Lamont is a media lawyer at Biddle & Co. Sir Robert Peel summed up the establishment view of the public’s right to know in the last century. He said: “Public opinion is compounded of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong-feeling, right-feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.” Little has changed, at least in some quarters. The law of […]
The University of Hertfordshire’s department of law is co-hosting a major international conference with the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges’ Association. The Lord Chief Justice will address the conference on the media and the judiciary. Called ‘Images of justice – differing perceptions’, the event will be held from 14 to 17 April in St Albans, the […]
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain secretary Julie-Anne Lotter has won the London Legal Secretary of the Year award, run by London Law Appointments and endorsed by The Lawyer. Lotter, who has been with the firm for 18 months, was one of 10 finalists to attend the presentation held at the Cafe Royal last week. She wins a […]
Most chambers have pictures on their walls. This is not surprising since each interior is designed as, or has been deli- berately kept to resemble, a 19th century gentleman’s sitting-room. Of these pictures, around half are antique prints in varying stages of decomposition. Some are quite striking, but many need reframing or even restoration. The […]
Cardiff firm Morgan Bruce has appointed a Professor of European Law as part of the expansion of its international law group. Rose D’Sa, head of a new European law unit at the University of Glamorgan, has joined Morgan Bruce as a European consultant. One of her first projects will be to identify new European laws […]
Keeley v West Essex Health Authority – QBD 15 January 1996 Claimant: Mark St John Keeley (suing through mother Pat Keeley) Accident: Medical negligence at birth resulting in cerebral palsy Injury: Forceps delivery failed; delay in delivery of plaintiff; second stage of labour allowed to last three hours 50 minutes despite lack of progress and […]
Dibb Lupton Broomhead has boosted its intellectual property group with the appointment of five new staff. Registered trademark agent Alan Fiddes, former head of the Linklaters & Paines’ trade mark unit, joined the firm’s London office earlier this month with four of his team. He became head of the Dibbs’ unit. The team is made […]
THE PUBLIC’S faith in the solicitors’ profession took another blow last week when Charles Julian Deacon was sentenced to nine years in prison for his part in a series of multi-million pound advance fee frauds. His co-defendant James Fuller was sentenced to seven years. Deacon’s conviction, on six counts of conspiracy to defraud and two […]
Society’s new computer system were described as a “crisis” by staff on the same day vice-president Robert Sayer was assured “teething problems” were being overcome, it has been revealed. In the internal email, seen by The Lawyer, director of professional standards and development John Randall said he was “extremely worried” about the new computer system. […]
The Inland Revenue has awarded contracts for the provision of estate management legal services in England and Wales to law firms Pinsent Curtis and Vaudreys. The firms, which were chosen from 105 applications, will each cover four regions as part of the three-year contract running from 1 April this year. The contract relates to all […]
Ralph Picken, who specialises in private sector funding for housing associations, has been named the new managing partner at London firm Trowers & Hamlins. He takes over this week from Don Moorhouse, who, after five years in the post, returns to his previous position as head of litigation. Picken spent five years in the firm’s […]
TWO recently-formed law firms have strengthened their practices with the appointment of new lawyers. City-based Orchard, formed last March from a management buy-out of Berman’s London office, has taken on a partner and a solicitor for its commercial property arm. Gordons, the niche commercial practice launched by three senior lawyers from Baker & McKenzie and […]