The predicament of UK citizens injured on overseas holidays is to hit the spotlight. London woman Emma Wilkinson, who was seriously injured on a Spanish campsite, is taking Club Cantabrica Holidays, of St Albans, to the High Court seeking damages for personal injuries. She was injured in an accident on a site run by the […]
HERBERT Smith has replaced 33 individual fax machines with FaxSwitch, a centralised system. The 30-line system copes with the demands of the 1,000 Herbert Smith employees who send and receive about two million pages of faxes a year. It is made by Hexar, which adapts the system to suit each buyer.
As genetic information assumes a more important role in everyday life, the potential for abuse grows ever greater. The implications of such information for issues from insurance policies to rights of privacy are immeasurable. The International Bar Association’s effort to tackle them is therefore very significant. The proposals developed by the IBA’s Medicine and Law […]
Rashpal Singh, admitted 1986, practising as R Singh & Co, Leicester, struck off and ordered to pay £2,379 costs. Allegations substantiated that he failed to act in best interests of building society clients; acted in circumstances where conflict of interests arose between building society clients; delayed or failed to complete conveyancing transaction; failed to supervise […]
Nabarro Nathanson advised German open-ended fund WestInvest on the £29.3m purchase of a building let to the Department of Trade and Industry, 10-18 Victoria Street, London SW1.
Cobbetts acted for Eddie Shah’s company Messenger Leisure by seeing through the purchase and funding of the Fornham Park Golf and Country Club in Bury St Edmund’s. Cobbetts also acted for Adam & Co, who provided the funding for the purchase.
Franks Charlesly & Co acted for Grosvenor Land Holdings on its acquisition from Oakburn Properties
The Lawyer has organised three evening seminars on the management and marketing of chambers. The sessions at the Inner Temple are designed to help chambers improve both their management structures and profitability. They follow up issues raised in a seminar held by The Lawyer in June, which was chaired by Bar Council chair David Penry-Davey […]
John Malpas reports A FULLY-equipped, modern chambers in Lincoln’s Inn, which can house about 50 tenants, is lying empty because the Inn has been unable to rent it out. The chambers, which used to house the set Hardwicke Building before it moved to a larger building nearby, is one of only a few large properties […]
A recent deluge of sensationalist newspaper headlines has brought the heated arguments over the control of material available on the Internet to the boil. Headlines such as: “Stop these companies peddling filth on the Internet” and “These men are not paedophiles: they are Internet abusers” and the articles that follow them have increased concern about […]
The Legal Software Suppliers Association (LSSA) is up and running. But why was it set up and what are its objectives? There are some in the legal profession who are not benefiting from IT as quickly as other professionals. Practices always aim to improve the service offered to clients and to develop management systems to […]
MICHAEL Kalisher QC has been described by his successor as head of chambers at 1 Hare Court as “among the most effective jury advocates of his generation”. Kalisher died of a brain tumour in September, aged 55. A memorial service is planned later this year for the former chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, and […]