THE SWINDON office of City firm Charles Russell has branched off to form a niche practice aimed at high-tech commercial and property work. Richard Clark and Jeremy Holt have formed Clark Holt with the town’s third Charles Russell partner property lawyer Graham Brothwood. But they retain links with Charles Russell by forming an association. Clark […]
SCOTTISH lawyers fear new rules limiting criminal appeals could lead to miscarriages of justice and may even be contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. Solicitors are being warned by the Faculty of Advocates that the new appeal provisions may be “contrary to the principles of natural justice”. The faculty is also sending a […]
Wilde Sapte lawyer Jeremy Gibb has been appointed as a partner in the asset finance group of Norton Rose. Gibb, who has joined the London office, is the second asset finance specialist to be brought on board by the firm this year. In May, Watson Farley & Williams solicitor Deborah Clark moved to Norton Rose’s […]
The Legal Aid Board employs 1,200 people in 13 area offices and a head office and accounts department in Gray’s Inn Road, London. The basic structure was inherited by the board from the Law Society, but there has been a massive shake-up of management systems and staff at the board since then. In 1990 160 […]
THE FUTURE of plea bargaining in financial fraud cases has been cast into doubt by MPs who slammed its use as “veiled in shadows”. The Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee’s report last week, the Regulation of Financial Services, voiced concerns despite support for plea bargaining from City regulators which want closer “interplay” between civil […]
MAGISTRATES decide this week whether to mount a legal challenge to the Lord Chancellor and Home Secretary over a plan to pass the job of enforcing court orders from police to magistrates courts. They say severe underfunding will limit courts’ ability to enforce orders and fines. Duncan Webster, general secretary of the Central Council of […]
French civil servants last week met with UK judges in London to discuss working practices on a wide range of legal issues. The delegation, all members of the Conseil d’Etat, the body charged with judicial oversight of French government administration, covered issues including judicial review cases which raise constitutional issues, rights and public law status […]
CALIFORNIAN attorneys have joined the growing ranks of US practitioners shielding their personal assets from seizure, following the passing of a new Bill on limited liability partnerships (LLPs). The Senate Bill 513, which passed through both houses with virtually no opposition, enables lawyers and accountants to register as LLPs provided they can show they are […]
A STUDENT essay competition run by an anti-abortion lawyers group is to receive the Law Society president’s endorsement. Martin Mears has promised to give his public support to the annual competition run by the Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn. But he has pledged not to turn the highly controversial anti-abortion issue […]
Lawrence Collins is head of litigation and arbitration at Herbert Smith. Common sense would suggest that if proceedings are pending in one country, and the defendant’s assets are situated in another, the plaintiff ought to be able to obtain some kind of interim relief (such as a Mareva injunction) in the latter country. That is […]
Reviewing a criminal compensation order Gamage v Director of Public Prosecutions (1995). DC (Rose LJ and Wright J) 16/10/95. Summary: A criminal compensation order which no reasonable court could have imposed. On reviewing a property compensation order imposed for obtaining by deception.
Lee Gleeson was born in London in 1963 and still lives in the city. She is an assistant in company and commercial at Charles Russell in London. She is one of only 12 lawyers to pass insolvency exams. What was your first job? Cinema usherette. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £10,500 […]