ALLEGATIONS of negligence and fraud are set to rock Lloyd’s of London this week. And they could lead to further legal actions and difficulties facing Lloyd’s in its bid to reach a global settlement. A paper by the Names Defence Association (NDA), containing statistical evidence from US attorneys’ reports, accuses the Lloyd’s Corporation of concealing […]
Michael Charles Parker, admitted 1975, practising in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £989 costs. Allegations substantiated he was guilty of delay in administration of estate, guilty of delay in conduct of professional business and failed to reply to letters from SCB. Tribunal said fine would have been higher but for Parker’s impecuniosity. […]
Merriam v Paris Construction and Peter Howlett – QBD 10 October 199Claimant: Mark Merriam, 3Accident: Plaintiff, 28 at time of accident, injured in 1987 road crash Injuries: Serious head injury consisting of depressed fracture of frontal bones of skull causing intercerebral haemorrhages – marked persisting neurological deficit including severe memory disturbance. Plaintiff has had to […]
A ROW between two charities has given rise to a landmark ruling in the High Court Chancery Division. The battle centres on a dispute over names between two organisations who raise cash to help the fight against diabetes. The 60-year-old, 150,000- member British Diabetic Association which has 450 groups nationwide challenged another charitable organisation calling […]
A MAN who claims he was ordered to pay an “excessive” bill for legal services after the Legal Aid Board allegedly interfered in a trial will this week lodge an official complaint against the body. Alan Brown’s firm Jim McKenzie & Co claims the LAB should have remained impartial in an action against Brown by […]
LONDON firm Mishcon De Reya is taking on four lawyers from the West End property firm Rabin Leacock Lipman. But at the same time four Mishcons equity partners are leaving: Brian Hepworth (litigation), Peter Armstrong (media), Graham Stedman and Paul Salmon (company). The Rabin Leacock move is Mishcon’s second acquisition of property lawyers in a […]
I take issue with Arnold Rosen’s allegation in Viewpoint on 24 October that I have been disloyal to the Law Society, to the profession and to the public interest. His allegation is inaccurate, scurrilous and unworthy. It is possibly predictable in view of his track record as a biased and mudslinging critic of the SCB. […]
Merger mania has once more hit the legal profession. According to the Smith & Williamson survey which contacted 35 partnerships of varying sizes, 86 per cent of firms have made an approach or been approached by another firm to discuss merger or acquisition. All the firms surveyed which have between 11 and 49 partners, have […]
In your last edition, reference is made to a caucus of council members in opposition to the president and my name is given as one such member. No one contacted me in regard to the article. Although David Thomas sets the situation straight to some extent, by innuendo the wholly wrong impression is given. Some […]
Clifford Chance acted for Bristol developer John Baylis in a joint venture with the Prudential Assurance Co on a £200 million regional shopping centre development at Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol. The scheme totalled more than £700,000 sq ft for around 140 shops. Berwin Leighton acted for Prudential.
The Times essay contest The Times is currently running an essay contest on ‘Advocacy – what is the future?’ with over £6,000 in prizes. No more than 1,000 words by 1 December to The Times Law Awards, c/o 1 Essex Court, Temple, London EC4Y 9AR. Association of Lawyers for the Defence of the Unborn Topic […]
I look forward to discussing the timetabled programme for the review of the Law Society’s attitude and organisation, requested by the council in September; to hearing who has been elected to the working party which will review the society’s activities, as approved by the council in September; most of all, to finding out if the […]