Linda Tsang reports Manchester firm Cobbett Leak Almond has appointed Neil Davies as IT manager for its city centre offices. Davies will oversee all aspects of IT development for the firm’s 180 staff. The firm’s managing partner Stephen White commented: “This appointment will enable the firm to take advantage of current and predicted technical advances […]
A BIRMINGHAM law firm has announced what it claims to be the first ever UK on-line pro bono service. The service by Tyndallwoods is aimed at community and environmental pressure groups who can receive advice over the Internet from its newly created Community Law Department. The service is designed to cover planning, environmental and housing […]
Four women lawyers are battling it out for the title of Cosmopolitan magazine’s most outstanding woman of the year. High profile Leigh Day & Co partner Geraldine McCool is leading the lawyer line-up for the prize to be awarded at a breakfast at Claridges in London on 7 December. She is joined by Dinah Rose, […]
Anyone in business knows that there certainly is such a thing as a free lunch. But the marketing boss at one major City law firm says that free lunches, champagne balloon rides, boozy dinners or days at the races are not to everyone’s tastes. While many clients are keen to meet and mingle, others are […]
Mr Justice Chadwick has given eight Newcastle street traders a 7 December deadline to challenge orders made by him on application from the City Council, that they move off the streets. The judge imposed bans but ruled that the orders should not become effective until 9 December in order to give the traders an opportunity […]
A battle between drinks wholesaler Euro Beers and Minerals and Customs and Excise is on its way to the High Court. Euro Beers, of Gillingham, Kent, is fighting for the return of 1,456 cases of whisky, 1,456 cases of vodka, and 2,189 cases of brandy which it claims customs men have unlawfully detained.
Technology is not only revolutionising business it is also leading to new types of crime. Stephen Dooley, computer lawyer at Oxford firm Morrell Peel & Gamelen cites the example of an American man who was charged with grievous bodily harm for leaving harmful messages on somebody else’s answer machine. Dooley is one of the few […]
Mark Harwood Williams, 49, admitted 1977, practised as RH Speechley Owen & Co, London NW10, Walford & Co, London NW2, Carruthers & Co, London, Southampton and Cambridge, struck off and ordered to pay £4,235 costs. Allegations substantiated he failed to reply adequately to correspondence from Solicitors Complaints Bureau and from clients; gave false and misleading […]
West country farmer Trevor Sedgbeer has waged a long-running battle with South Hams District Council against an order that he demolish a house he built without planning consent at the village of Stoke Gabriel. He has been to both the High Court and Court of Appeal in his battle. However, rather than obey a High […]
Government moves are under way in a bid to snatch back a legal victory won by 20-year-old Rebecca Fairey, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, who has beaten deafness to become a nursery nurse. Earlier this year she won a landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal which promised to benefit other deaf people. The ruling entitled her […]
AN OPEN meeting is being held this week in a bid to encourage more solicitor advocates to apply for higher court rights of audience. The open meeting at the Law Society’s council chamber on Friday is being organised by the Young Solicitors Group which says it is “very concerned” at the “extremely limited take-up” of […]
Sipping champagne with your clients may be enjoyable, but does it also make commercial sense? Research suggests that it is five to ten times more difficult to win business from new clients than it is to get additional work from existing clients. Why should this be the case? The answer is simple. Your existing clients […]