Unsatisfied performance bond in building contract Trafalgar House Construction (Regions) v General Surety & Guarantee Co (1995) HL (Lords Keith, Ackner, Jauncey, Lloyd and Steyn) 29/6/95. Summary: Surety’s rights and liabilities under a performance bond for the completion of a building sub-contract and whether it was in the nature of a guarantee. Under a sub-contract […]
John Malpas reports BUSY junior barristers in danger of allowing their tax affairs to go “horribly wrong” are to be targeted by an Inland Revenue tax advice roadshow. The tax team, from the Bloomsbury Inland Revenue office, is visiting all the Inns of Court in turn before the end of the summer to advise barristers […]
Farmer Gary Coomber is seeking compensation over what he claims are the effects of toxic sheep dip. Coomber, of Headcorn, Maidstone, Kent, is suing Young’s Animal Health, of Glasgow, and Mallinckrodt Veterinary of South Harefield, Uxbridge. His writ claims he suffered illness, including myocarditis and heart disease, as a result of exposure to sheep dip […]
CHRISTOPHER JAMES ANDREWS, admitted 1979, practised as CJ Andrews, London W2, struck off and ordered to pay £2,074 costs. Allegations substantiated he wrongly drew and used client funds, failed to keep books properly and had been jailed for dishonesty. Andrews is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence imposed on him at Knightsbridge Crown Court for […]
THE NEWEST London set is clerkless, and proud of it. The chambers, at 95A Chancery Lane, has been set up by barrister Marie-Claire Sparrow with her accountant husband Richard, a non practising barrister. Marie-Claire Sparrow, called to the Bar in 1977, carries out a wide variety of work for the French community, and has close […]
TWO BARRISTERS accused of negligence by a disaster witness who lost a compensation fight have applied for the claim to be struck out. The High Court application was filed by law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain which is representing Nigel Wilkinson QC and Anna Guggenheim, both of Raymond Kidwell QC’s 2 Crown Office Row set. The […]
Law firms offering financial service advice will benefit from a new initiative All law firms offering financial service advice will receive a marketing boost this autumn with the launch of a consumer hotline and Freepost facility designed to introduce potential clients to firms. The initiative is being handled by SIFA, the financial services network for […]
– Philip Meredith’s 10 Gray’s Inn Square set is in the middle of a busy recruitment period. In the last few months it has taken on six recruits. Michael Forward, a former 3 King’s Bench Walk tenant who was called to the Bar in 1984
Anthony Greayer reminds solicitors that they should be deciding where they stand in relation to the Crest share system It is now time for solicitors’ firms to decide what they want to do about Crest. The only option that is not available is to ignore it. Crest offers private client practices the choice of either […]
DIBB Lupton Broomhead’s Manchester head of employment has quit the firm after his role was reduced following the transfer of national employment law heavyweight Paul Nicholls to the North. Andrew Chamberlain left the practice last Friday and will see out a reduced notice period on garden leave before Dibbs releases him to take up his […]
Mike Yuille examines the questions George Staple might face when the select committee quizzes him over the Levitt trial The Serious Fraud Office paid £450,000 in fees to David Cocks QC and two juniors to prosecute Roger Levitt who walked away from court with a sentence of 180 hours’ community service. This and other titbits […]
Lawyers who supply information to the Internet have been provided with their own Web site. Nick Lockett, a barrister at 10 King’s Bench Walk, has set up the Netlaw site, which provides information on a range of legal matters aimed at lawyers and the public. It includes newsletters on computer law, personal injury, and environmental […]