An Appeal Court decision is currently pending about the ownership of millions of pounds worth of art treasures by sculptor Henry Moore. The judgment will have wide ranging implications for artists over ownership of their work. The works at the centre of the dispute are housed at the artist’s former home in Hertfordshire and Moore’s […]
A 56-year-old County Cork business executive who collapsed after his release from a London hospital following day care treatment is suing the health authority he blames. Donald Herliky has issued a High Court writ claiming damages from Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority. It says he was admitted to Westminster Hospital on 25 March 1992 […]
NICHOLSON Graham & Jones partner Andrew Besser is legal adviser to a new group pressing the case for non administrative receivers, currently unprotected by insolvency legislation. The Non-Administrative Receivers Association (Nara) will represent those receivers who handle insolvency of property assets under fixed charges and are not regarded by law as administrative receivers. These professionals, […]
TOP fraud lawyers at Simons Muirhead & Burton and Magrath & Co are now fully engaged in the Maxwell trial following the decision by Serious Fraud Office (SFO) director George Staple to proceed with certain counts in the case. Proceedings against Kevin Maxwell, Larry Trachtenberg, and former Maxwell employees Albert Fuller and Michael Stoney are […]
THE BAR Council’s narrow ballot victory in favour of its complaints scheme could be short-lived, as its opponents consider an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to force another ballot. The move is being discussed because the ballot included around 4,000 employed barristers, who opponents say would not be seriously affected by the changes. If the move […]
THE CENTRAL London County Court is to launch a new Chancery list this spring to provide a streamlined service for cases remitted to it by the High Court. Litigators and clients in the South East are expected to benefit from the move, which aims to handle specialist commercial cases faster and, by implication, more economically. […]
Are trainee solicitors and newly qualifieds any less literate or numerate than their counterparts who qualified 10, 20 or even 30 years ago? This is one of the questions the Law Society working party on entry to the profession is debating as part of its investigation into reducing the number of entrants to the profession. […]
Herbert Smith is acting for the Chilean state copper company Codelco in its $170 million litigation against a London trading company alleging conspiracy to defraud. The action by Codelco, the world’s biggest copper producer, is against a London Metal Exchange trading company, Sogemin. Codelco is seeking damages relating to losses suffered in the copper futures […]
CITY firm Charles Russell has established an association with an Indian legal practice. The association with Bombay-based Desai, Berjis & Chinoy comes shortly after the Indian government’s restriction on the UK firms setting up in India. Simon Slater, director of marketing at Charles Russell, said: “We have a policy of not setting up our own […]
A NEW post of head of education and training has been created at the Bar Council as it undergoes a major expansion of its bureaucracy in response to several recent reforms. Nigel Bastin, former head of Manchester Metropolitan University’s law school, has taken up the newly-created post at the Bar Council. The appointment follows the […]
THE LORD Chancellor has announced he will not implement a Law Commission report which took five years in the making. Although his department has not rejected the commission’s report on mental incapacity out of hand, a parliamentary answer by Lord Mackay last week suggested it would prove more controversial than anticipated. The report, published as […]
Rosemary West, convicted last November on 10 counts of murder, has lodged grounds for her appeal. Master Michael McKenzie QC has referred the application to the Court of Appeal and, because of the high-profile nature of the case, he has decided that a full Court of Appeal should consider the application rather than the usual […]