The former media firm Wright Webb Syrett recently hit the headlines when stacks of client files were dumped in a building skip. Nearby drinkers who came across the files were treated to details of the affairs of a string of celebrities including Sean Connery, Gillian Taylforth and Bill Wyman. With the information super highway offering […]
As the peace process continues in Northern Ireland the High Court is set to examine the position of jailed terrorists seeking parole. Five convicted IRA terrorists, currently serving life sentences have won the right to mount a High Court challenge over what they claim are “irrational and unreasonable” delays in the hearing of their parole […]
Muna Dandan The Law Lords are to consider the case of a separated Harrow couple at the centre of a dispute over a joint weekly tenancy of council property. The couple were granted the tenancy under the Housing Act 1985 in 1994 but the wife left her husband and sought to be re-housed. Her husband […]
Ashurst Morris Crisp advised Alco Standard Corporation in its £23.5 million recommended cash offer for Copymore.
Adrian Pellman Your editorial in The Lawyer 22 August is the subject of comment by your correspondent Mr Alton (‘Cut-price will cut service’ 5 September) who said “you rightly say that, it is time for the conveyancers to give the public what they want”. He goes on to say that evidence suggests the public are […]
Paul Lowe is a partner in the banking department at Eversheds in Cardiff. He was born in Cardiff in 1959 and still lives in the city. What was your first job? Petrol pump attendant. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £1,750. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? […]
BARRISTERS’ set 29 Bedford Row has expanded its office space by half through acquiring the lease of its neighbours, Yorkshire Television. The purchase of the lease of 31 Bedford Row was prompted by Yorkshire TV’s decision to abandon its London offices following its merger with Tyne Tees Television and the rationalisation of its London office […]
Goldcrest Films and Television is taking Merchant Ivory Productions and A Room with a View Productions to the High Court in a damages claim over the sale of the rights of the film A Room with a View. Goldcrest claims it entered into an agreement over the film with Merchant Ivory, A Room with a […]
Back in May 1992 when live video links were used for the first time in the English civil court (Henderson v SBS Realisations), it would have cost more to fly a key witness over from Massachusetts than the £4,000 claim for damages which the court was administering over a missing antique clock. Since 1992 video […]
Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy are squaring up in the £1.7 billion hostile takeover bid for Fisons by US drugs company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (RPR). Slaughters’ team, acting for RPR, is led by corporate partner Tim Clark, who headed the firm’s team for investment bank Kleinwort Benson in its £1 billion acquisition by German […]
The chief inspector of prisons Judge Tumim will this week receive an honorary Doctor of Law from Oxford Brookes University. Tumim, who will leave his post at the end of October, was called to the Bar in 1955. In the past he has acted as a Circuit and County Court judge and is currently a […]
While Australian and New Zealand law firms are similarly structured to those in the US, Canada or the UK, the profession in Australia and New Zealand has been going through a number of structural changes in recent years. Australia’s federal system, containing at least five significant commercial centres, has encouraged the development of national firms […]