London Guildhall University is offering courses in English and International Law as part of its 1996 summer school programme. The summer school is open to English and overseas students throughout July and August and includes visits to the Law Courts, the Inns of Court and City institutions.
UP TO 1,000 legal trainees could soon be exchanged throughout Europe each year if a Commission-funded pilot project set to run over the next 12 months is a success. The project, which won a £72,000 grant from the European Union’s Leonardo Da Vinci vocational training programme last week, gained approval after almost three years of […]
LEADING family law firm Gordon Dadds has lost two of its partners to rivals Withers. Gill Doran and James Harcus, who became partners in 1981, leave at the end of March. They join Diana Parker’s team on 1 April. “This is a tremendous opportunity,” said Doran. “Withers is the best private client firm and it’s […]
Brussels-based Rowe & Maw partner Simon Baxter, 4 Raymond Buildings barrister Christopher Vajda, and Melanie Farquharson of Simmons & Simmons are among the speakers lined up to address a two-day conference on European and US competition law aimed at in-house lawyers. The conference, to be held at London’s Berners Hotel on 6 to 7 March, […]
Hartlepool firm Tilly Bailey & Irvine is setting up a dealing room as part of its newly established investment services department. According to funds manager Iain Mackie, the firm aims to “bring the City to Hartlepool”. The dealing room is part of the firm’s technology plan and will be a “state of the art dealing […]
Clive Boxer is a consultant at Davies Arnold Cooper. Any commercial lawyer with experience of US litigation will know the golden rule in the US is to make as few notes as possible because they may be disclosed however much one tries to cloak them in professional privilege. In Barclays Bank plc v Eustice (1995) […]
A renewed battle by animal protection pressure groups to block the export of live veal calves from the UK is now pending in the European Court following a High Court ruling in December. Rearing calves using the continental veal crate system has been banned in the UK since 1990. Now a new challenge to the […]
Princess Diana, David Mellor, Monica Bauwens, Esther Ranzen, Graham Souness – the case book of solicitor Martin Cruddace reads like a celebrity’s Who’s Who. However, Cruddace has never represented any of them. Instead he has been on the defence side of High Court actions brought against Mirror Group Newspapers. In the five and a half […]
Charles Edward Nutter, 42, admitted 1984, practised as Charles Nutter & Co, Blackpool (address given as Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca at time of tribunal hearing), struck off and ordered to pay £4,451 costs. Allegations substantiated he failed to maintain properly written accounts, failed to produce accounting documents for inspection when required, drew money from client account […]
AN IMPRESSIVE array of senior legal figures has rallied to the banner of a cash-strapped charity dedicated to finding missing people. Nine lawyer members of the House of Lords have signed up as vice-patrons of a new national appeal being launched by the National Missing Persons Helpline, established three years ago. Among them are Vice-Chancellor […]
The Government is to fund pilot schemes to prepare couples for marriage in an attempt to reduce divorce figures. The Lord Chancellor’s Department has announced that it will pledge hundreds of thousands of pounds to try out schemes, including marriage preparation projects and counselling sessions for couples who are experiencing problems early on in their […]
Hull firm Andrew M Jackson & Co has been appointed to carry out all Humberside International Airport’s legal work, as the airport enters a phase of rapid expansion. The firm was selected from a shortlist to oversee the airport’s £2.5 million development.