Craig v Tarmac Construction – QBD 31 October 1995 Claimant: Colin Craig, 4Accident: Plaintiff fell fixing scaffolding on building site Injuries: Loss of consciousness at time of accident; loss of part of scalp skin; injury to right elbow; bruised knees; bruising of sacral area of back; post-traumatic amnesia for some minutes after accident; post concussional […]
INDEPENDENT guidelines for personal injury lawyers on sensitive issues like advertising may be drawn up by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. Apil president Michael Napier has sparked off a debate in the group over whether it should issue practice guidelines which may not be in line with the Law Society’s policies. In his presidential […]
Read any newspaper and you would be forgiven for assuming that the UK was drowning in a sea of fake notes and dud coins. A recent article in The Times claimed that a national chain of pubs was refusing to accept £50 notes for fear of their being counterfeit. Commentators have named the guilty parties […]
An upbeat portrait of the City’s financial strengths was painted by Stock Exchange chief executive Michael Lawrence at the third annual Leonard Sainer Lecture. The lecture last week was sponsored by the Leonard Sainer Legal Education Foundation and Titmuss Sainer Dechert and chaired by retired Court of Appeal judge Sir John Balcombe, chair of the […]
The Asylum and Immigration Bill, to be published imminently, will toughen up laws on asylum-seekers and illegal immigrants. The Government has received strong Labour criticism for playing the “race card” before the general election, but ministers defended it saying the surge of asylum applications meant this year’s figure was likely to reach 40,000, excluding dependents. […]
The Broadcasting Bill, expected to be published at the end of the month, is likely to endorse the proposals of former Heritage Secretary Stephen Dorrell. Dorrell believed newspaper companies with less than 20 per cent of national circulation should be able to own television companies, subject to a limit of 15 per cent of the […]
Expansion in the Far East, attracting international clients from a UK base and successfully opening overseas offices are among the topics to be discussed at The Lawyer’s upcoming conference on the globalisation of legal practice. The one-day event – ‘International Expansion for Law Firms: Responding to International Client Demands’ will be held at the Cumberland […]
SOLICITORS in the North-west of England enjoy fee earning work but are not too excited about practice management. They work hard, on average 40 and 50 hours a week, and the majority earn between £25,000 and £50,000. The findings form part of a major survey of lawyers’ working lives by chartered accountants Gruber Levinson Franks. […]
I refer to the writs section of The Lawyer 7 November 1995 and would ask you to make it clear the old firm of Grangewoods referred to in relation to a claim from the Royal Bank of Scotland is not connected to this firm and that none of the partners at this firm are defendants […]
Eurojuris, the largest legal network in Western Europe and Scandinavia, has appointed Lamb Brooks partner David Evans as president one year before the leadership was expected to change hands. Evans, a company and commercial solicitor, was favoured for the four-year term of office due to start in 1996, but the recent Eurojuris congress in Venice […]
THE FORMER partner of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane says a judicial inquiry is the only way to establish the truth over allegations of collusion by the Government and security forces in Finucane’s 1989 murder. Peter Madden is acting for Finucane’s widow, Geraldine, in a negligence action against the Ministry of Defence. The case is […]
Cyril Dixon reports SEDGEFIELD council – the north-east authority which hit the headlines with its own “community” security patrols – claims to have struck a new blow for law and order with pioneering legal moves to tackle unruly neighbours. District solicitor Dennis Hall overcome several drawbacks in the use of housing laws to obtain interlocutory […]