Don’t leave home without one – but which one of the several new commentaries on this complex, controversial and varied Act? By now, if not before, all criminal practitioners will be confronted by the need to have ready access to the actual text of the Act whether at court, the police station or advising elsewhere. […]
UK FIRM Withers has established an independent presence in Spain after eight years of practising in the country as part of an association. Head of the firm’s Spanish department Michael Soul, a partner in the London office, has opened Michael Soul & Asociados in Madrid and Malaga. The offices, which officially opened on 1 April, […]
Nigel Hamilton QC, the barrister suspended from the Bar for three months for sexual harassment, has been sacked by the Lord Chancellor from his part-time assistant recorder post on the Western Circuit. His dismissal follows the high-profile Inns of Court disciplinary tribunal that took place earlier this year and which found Hamilton guilty of sexually […]
TV host and former Labour MP Robert Kilroy-Silk has issued a writ for libel against Conservative MP Warren Hawksley, through law firm Compton Carr. The legal action follows remarks made by Hawksley about Kilroy-Silk in a press release and also in the local press, following problems experienced by the MP in attempting to attend a […]
Orchard, the former Bermans London office, has appointed its first new partner. In March this year, Bermans sold its London operation to the management team headed by David Orchard. Commercial property specialist Nicola Stewart joined the office at the beginning of the year from DJ Freeman and has now become a partner in the property […]
City firm Warner Cranston has moved offices in Coventry. The building’s official opening on 30 March was attended by the Mayor of Coventry and Judge Malcolm Lee of the Birmingham Mercantile Court. Warner Cranston has had a base in Coventry since 1987 when it acquired the in-house litigation service of the Courtaulds Group. The office […]
NEWSPAPER lawyers have been warned by the High Court that they, not editors, may have to bear the responsibility if they make a mistake which leads to their paper being taken to court. Editor of The Sun Stuart Higgins was cleared by Family Division judge Mr Justice Thorpe of blame after a photograph of one […]
Devonport Management is being advised by Norton Rose and Bond Pearce in its bid to acquire Devonport Royal Dockyard, which it has managed since 1987 under a government-owned, contractor-operated arrangement.
Beauford was advised by Hammond Suddards on the issue of new shares to finance an acquisition
AN IRISH solicitor has won libel damages of u10,000 against a member of the profession in Britain. Justin Sadleir, of Gort, County Galway, took the action in Galway Circuit Court over a letter written by Joseph Bateman, of Bovingdon, Hertfordshire. The court heard that Sadleir had represented a company called Manorcraft in an action in […]
The Association of Women Solicitors has elected Glenys Arden as its new chair. Arden, a partner in Liverpool firm Gamon Arden & Co, sits as an acting stipendiary magistrate and also as a part-time chair of Social Security and Child Support Appeal tribunals. She is also a member of the Law Society’s committee on standards […]
A NUMBER of Nabarro Nathanson secretaries suffering from upper limb disorder have been told they will have their salaries terminated. The decision by the firm comes after some of the secretaries have been off work on full pay for between six months and two years. However, the plan is not to terminate their employment but […]