The Government should have boosted advice provision and allowed more time for district judges to be properly trained before raising the small claims limit in the county courts to £3,000, according to Suzanne Burn, secretary of the Law Society’s civil litigation committee. The Lord Chancellor’s decision not to exempt tenants taking disrepair or illegal eviction […]
Bugs have been blamed by Law Society secretary general John Hayes for delays in the issuing of practising and investment business certificates which should have been sent out in the autumn. A letter from Hayes apologising for the delays appeared in the Law Society Gazette last week. Blaming the problem on bugs in a new […]
DURING the last four working days before Christmas 1995 the Master of the Rolls, together with Lord Justice Waite and Lord Justice Otton, clarified some of the most litigated aspects of Order 17, rule 11 of the County Court Rules. Judgments were given immediately after each group of cases. The Court of Appeal held that: […]
TOP employment barrister David Pannick QC has applauded an industrial tribunal ruling against the Labour Party’s women-only shortlists. And Pannick, who originally condemned the party’s policy after its introduction over two years ago, said although opposing opinions were “clearly arguable”, if an appeal were launched, “I would expect the Employment Appeal tribunal to reach the […]
CIVIL and human rights groups are dismayed at the Government’s renewal of its existing emergency powers in Northern Ireland. They argue that even the recent drug-related killings, widely thought to be the work of IRA members, do not constitute a proper state of emergency. Renewal of the “excessive” powers for another two years is against […]
CITY firm Cameron Markby Hewitt is keeping in close touch with the parents of missing law graduate Johanne Masheder following her disappearance in Thailand. Duncan Aldred, the litigation partner who interviewed 23-year-old Masheder for her training contract at the firm, spoke to The Lawyer on 8 January, the day she was due to start her […]
A SOLICITORS’ group handling a mass of industrial injuries claims against British Coal has set up a hotline to cope with the anticipated response to a High Court ruling. The Vibration White Finger Litigation Solicitors’ Group claims the interim ruling at Newcastle High Court could lead to claims from thousands of sufferers of the disease. […]
Katherine Reid was born on 14 July 1962 in New York. She is a partner at Kingsley Napley, specialising in commercial litigation and employment. What was your first job? Switchboard operator in a toy factory. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £10,000. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a […]
The RECENT furore over the way prisoners’ sentences are calculated at first appeared to be normal silly season fare. But on closer examination it raised issues that bemused many lawyers, as well as their clients in prison, revealing starkly the complexities of prison law. Statutory provisions for calculating remand time are in CJA 1967 section […]
Garrett & Co acted on a $16m flotation of the Egypt Fund
Davies Wallis Foyster advised Manchester Airport on the sale of a site to be developed with a 73,000 sq ft office building.
Berwin Leighton represented Peel Holdings on a £220m lease and bank financing of the development of a regional shopping centre at Trafford Park