CITY and Home Counties firm Penningtons is acting for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on a proposed loan to a major Belarussian company. A team from the company and commercial department headed by partner Roger Duncan is advising on ownership and security of assets and will regularly be visiting factories in the capital […]
We have been asked to point out that Leo Abse, the former MP who spearheaded divorce reforms in Parliament in 1969, was a member of the Labour party and not a Conservative.
COLOMBIAN human rights lawyer Luis Perez thought he was safe. Death threats last year forced him to move his pregnant wife and young son to a secret location outside Bogota. He even stopped defending political prisoners and families of the tortured, murdered and disappeared. But it wasn’t enough. Colombia’s paramilitary death squads run a wide […]
Herbert Smith’s massive task of floating the National Grid reached its conclusion when trading in the privatised utility started on 11 December. The flotation involved at least 35 lawyers, including a dozen partners, in a deal valued at more than £5 billion. Together with related demergers by the regional electricity companies (RECs), it was one […]
In The Lawyer 1 August Tony Holland gives his views on the election of Martin Mears as president of the Law Society. It comes as no surprise that Mr Holland should express the views set out in that opinion. He probably does reflect the views of the majority of the council of the Law Society […]
It is now five months since changes were made which limit the rights of silence. Solicitors are left with the problem of advising suspects about an uncertain and complex new law. The Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee has published guidelines which set out the circumstances in which a court should not penalise a silent suspect. […]
Herbert Smith acted for the Prudential Trustee Company in its role as trustees in relation to a £2 million loan notes issue by Premier Health Group.
THE LAW Society has lost its platform at the Bar’s annual conference after this year’s organisers revamped the programme and eliminated the official luncheon. Traditionally, the Law Society president had addressed colleagues on the other side of the profession during the conference lunch. But the 1995 programme, which devotes the morning to discussion of Lord […]
THE LAW Society has fired off a damning response to the Government’s White Paper on divorce reform, saying it will lead to a “fragmented, unfair, unworkable and expensive system” of law. And it has called for a comprehensive pilot project to be carried out before legislation is passed to ensure planned changes are viable. The […]
“WATCH out for the Sir Humphries,” is one of the pieces of “helpful” advice the new Law Society president Martin Mears received from a supporter. So impressed was the president with the tip that he decided to include it in his column in the Law Society Gazette. It was a clear jibe at the Law […]
Sinclair Roche & Temperley solicitor David Middleburgh has obtained his licence to act as an insolvency practitioner – only the sixth solicitor in London to take the title since the qualification criteria were tightened in 1989. Middleburgh, a commercial lawyer, has extensive experience of advising on corporate insolvencies, particularly on an international level.
COUNCIL lawyers face delays and confusion when advising on the eviction of travellers following High Court rulings on groups in East Sussex and Lincolnshire. At least 30 authorities are trying to obtain transcripts of the ruling and some solicitors believe the Government should issue new guidelines to clarify the application of the law. The court […]