Birmingham firm Tyndallwoods is extending its one-hour will service by taking it into the homes of housebound clients. According to partner Judy Dyke, the new service, called ‘Wills on Wheels’, is one more step towards removing all solicitors’ work from the office and into the homes of clients. Working with Lotus Notes, Dyke last year […]
A DISPUTE between the Bar and the Law Society over terms of engagement for counsel is threatening to cloud the launch of conditional fees. Negotiations between the two branches of the profession over a model agreement acceptable to both sides have broken down. Instead of producing a single model document for solicitors and barristers to […]
COMPUTER lawyers have given a cool response to plans for new copyright laws to be put before the Department of Trade and Industry this week. The proposals aimed at controlling the use of protected material on the Internet have been criticised as “unfair” and “unworkable”. Plans for a “transmission right” to ensure copyright owners receive […]
PRIVATE lawyers’ work from the Crown Prosecution Service continues to fall, according to the latest CPS annual report. The figures show that the proportion of half-day sessions covered by agents in private practice in 1994/95 was 13.4 per cent, compared to 15.9 per cent for the previous year. The CPS was hoping for a more […]
Withers acted for plastics company GenCel Group in the £5.7 million acquisition of two plastics moulding businesses
Pilot electronic mail (email) systems are to be introduced in the Hampshire and Suffolk Crown Prosecution Service offices this month. The initiative is part of a major project to co-ordinate IT throughout the criminal justice system. CPS IT manager Roger Barbour says the project is the first step toward a comprehensive CPS email service which […]
The Revenue’s £25 million publicity campaign for the self-assessment tax regime is an important reminder for legal firms, says Cyril Dixon. THE MAN in the bowler hat has something to offer lawyers. The taxman caricature who fronts the Inland Revenue’s television advertising is bearing a self-assessment message which appears to have been missed thus far. […]
TWO FORMER partners of merged City firm Turner Kenneth Brown were appointed to new jobs last week. Richard Harrison joins commercial practice Laytons and Sarah Stowell moves to Bircham & Co, the Westminster-based private client and charity firm, both as partners. TKB joined forces with Nabarro Nathanson in May to form a new practice under […]
Simmons & Simmons tax partner Stephen Coleclough gets the top departmental job as head of corporate tax following the departure of Edward Troup. Coleclough is also appointed chairman of the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s indirect taxes sub-committee. Coleclough, 33, has been with the firm since 1987 and a partner since 1991. He currently heads the […]
City law firm Bird & Bird has recruited Simon Chalton as a consultant and Hilary Pearson as a partner to boost its IT department Chalton, a former IT consultant with Masons, joins the firm as an adviser on databases, data protection and the developing law of privacy. Pearson, a former partner with Texas law firm […]
THE EAGERLY awaited Law Society election results were due to be announced on Monday, the day of the count. Politically minded lawyers will have noted the comparisons between the Law Society poll and the trifling affair of the Tory leadership battle. Parallels even extend to right-wing claims on the day of the Westminster count that […]
Linda Packard says law firms that avoid giving advice on Discrete Investment Business are ignoring on a prime opportunity Financial services can be a lucrative part of a legal practice. However, many firms have been disillusioned by the ever-increasing number of regulations and rules that apply to financial services advice and have shied away from […]