A LAW Society commitment to examine the possibility of barrister’s fees being covered in its conditional fee insurance package has come to nothing. Matthias Kelly, of the Personal Injuries Bar Association, says he is “disappointed” by the news that no part of counsel’s fees will be included in the Law Society package. At a meeting […]
FORMER solicitors’ clerk Dennis Boswell, whose 76-year-old mother was arrested for allegedly growing cannabis found in a greenhouse he had rented to a neighbour, is suing the neighbour for damages. Boswell, who according to a writ issued by him in person, was dismissed from his post as senior litigation executive with Elliott & Company in […]
Widespread concern among UK legal and consumer groups has greeted the Government’s intention to make the public pay for the full cost of using the civil courts. They are convinced that “full cost recovery”, with expected daily court fees of u200- u500, will shut out thousands of people from using the civil justice system. The […]
MANCHESTER firm Addleshaw Sons & Latham has lost one of its leading insolvency and banking partners who has retired from the partnership after five years. Anthony Kirby, who gave notice in recent weeks, is believed to be taking time out to consider his future. Kirby joined Addleshaws in 1989 after leaving William F Prior & […]
In an era of increasing multi-state transactions and consequential litigation, it is time to increase awareness of other legal systems and codes. The massive expansion of the international marketplace during the 1980s was epitomised by the rapid growth of a number of apparently powerful multi-national conglomerates. This was followed in the early 1990s by the […]
Leading commercial and public law set 2 Hare Court has elected Charles Flint QC and Presiley Baxendale QC as joint heads of chambers (pictured above). Baxendale was counsel during the Arms to Iraq hearings. Colin Ross-Munro QC, head of chambers for the past 19 years, will continue to practice from the set. In August, the […]
TOP ten firm Lovell White Durrant has pulled off a coup de grOce by poaching two leading insurance lawyers from high profile Chicago firm Sidley & Austin. The move, which will create a Chicago office for Lovells, flies in the face of current trends which have seen many of the top US firms enticing British […]
SOLICITOR Peter Scott of Barnstable-based firm Toller Beattie has won a battle in his fight with the Government over European guidelines on water quality. Scott is fighting a series of actions on behalf of the shellfish industry against government guidelines which he says contravene European law. Now the Department of the Environment has confirmed to […]
The Law Society has shied away from proposals to monitor the ethnic make-up of all law firms although the equal opportunities policies of those taking on trainees will be monitored. The final proposals of the society’s working party on discrimination dealing with monitoring procedures were approved by the Law Society Council last week. A report […]
THE LEGAL Aid Practitioners Group has endorsed Eileen Pembridge’s campaign for the Law Society presidency. Pembridge, senior partner of Fisher Meredith, has also taken on past LAPG chair Stephen Gilchrist to run her campaign. Gilchrist, of Gilchrists, promises firm support for Pembridge from the group and says he is hopeful several other special interest groups […]
THE BRISTOL & West Building Society is putting increasing pressure on the Solicitors Indemnity Fund to pay up the u500,000 compensation resulting from the alleged remortgaging frauds totalling u1 million by ex-solicitor Geoffrey Beccle. The sale of a property in London last week acted as the trigger for Bristol & West and several other building […]
BRISTOL-based firm Bevan Ashford has won a three-way pitch to handle legal advice for one of London’s biggest teaching hospital trusts, St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust of Tooting, south London. The firm beat off rival London practices Beachcroft Stanleys and incumbents Capsticks, following a tendering process which began last August. Bevan Ashford has now begun […]