A meeting of the international delegates of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) saw a City partner elected as the group’s new president. Jeremy Brown, head of intellectual property, technology and communications at Linklaters & Paines, was voted in during the meeting in Orlando. Made up of 27 member societies representing 35 countries, LESI is […]
Chartered accountant Touche Ross has signed barrister Andrew Young as a member of its VAT team. Young, who has represented the Commissioners of Customs and Excise in more than 200 VAT and Duties Tribunal hearings, will represent clients appealing against indirect tax assessments and interest penalties.
NEWSPAPER lawyers have slammed clauses in the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Bill restricting report- age of trials as “new fetters upon open justice”. In a letter to Home Secretary Michael Howard, lawyers for the Guild of Editors say that proposed new court order powers carrying criminal penalties will “gag” the press by “more and more […]
Hammond Suddards senior partner Alan Bottomley has announced plans to retire after 24 years building the firm to its current position. Bottomley has been influential in the firm’s development since the mid-1970s, having seen it grow from his family practice Gaunt, Fosters & Bottomley through several mergers finally to become a 900-staff commercial firm with […]
EACH week while Europe’s legislators debate the pros and cons of a single currency five of the member states’ top lawyers meet by telephone to forecast the future of the union’s legal profession. Since its establishment 35 years ago the five-member presidency of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE) […]
LOVELL White Durrant’s former joint managing partner Charles Dodson is being seconded to the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR). Dodson, who set up Lovell’s Chicago office this summer, will spend around three months with the leading ADR (alternative dispute resolution) body he helped found five years ago. Karl Mackie, CEDR chief executive, said the centre […]
LEADING telecommunications lawyer Ted Mercer is leaving Allison & Humphreys to head a team at Taylor Joynson Garrett. Mercer has been a partner in the telecommunications and broadcasting department at Allison & Humphreys since 1990. He specialises in the regulatory field, interconnect procurement agreements and the cable industry. However, discussions are still under way as […]
FOUR members of Law Society president Martin Mears’ new reform group have moved to downplay the extent of its cohesiveness. In a joint letter in this week’s issue of The Lawyer, council members Angela Deacon, David Keating, David Savage and John Pickup insist the President’s Reform Group (PRG) is not a party or faction within […]
London barrister Dinah Rose has beaten 100 finalists to become this year’s Cosmopolitan/American Express Achievement award winner. A sex discrimination lawyer, Rose represented police officer Alison Halford in her case against the Chief Constable of Merseyside and fought for women in the armed services who were dismissed after they became pregnant. More recently, she took […]
CIRCUIT judge Richard Gee has released a press statement saying that he is confident he will emerge from mortgage fraud inquiries with his reputation “intact”. Gee, who was arrested last week and questioned at Belgravia police station, is alleged to have been involved in fraud occurring between 1980 and 1989. His arrest was confirmed in […]
John Bieber has hit the button in his book If Divorce is The Only Way. In 39 well-written chapters, he sets out how a spouse going through or contemplating a divorce can best avoid the pitfalls often encountered during, as well as beyond, the process and how he or she can cope with the trauma […]
Clifford Chance acted for Burton Group in its £94.5 million purchase of the head leasehold interest in its flagship property at London’s Oxford Circus. Nicholson Graham & Jones acted for the vendor, a joint venture between Heron International and Societe Generale.