Managing the annual financial accounts is a redundant exercise. Financial accounts are a snapshot of past performance and you can’t manage business on this basis. Managing information is the key to success. Financial goals are necessary over a relevant future period, say three years, and partners’ support in achieving those goals. Budgets are short term, […]
Intentional homelessness R v Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council Ex-parte Okuneye (1995) QBD (Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC) 10/2/95. Summary: Application for judicial review of council decision that Nigerian woman was intentionally homeless within s.60 Housing Act 1985 by leaving her home in Nigeria to live with her betrothed in London.
Simon Edmund John Kaberry, 47, admitted 1974, practised as Simon Kaberry & Co, Leeds, struck off and ordered to pay £11,221 costs. Allegations substantiated he wrongly drew client money, paid his own money into client account, practised without current practising certificate, failed to promptly redeem mortgages, deceived clients as to his failure over mortgage redemption. […]
Decisions are taken from Lawtel’s legal database. TLR: Times Law Reports; ILR: Independent Law Reports; LTL: Lawtel; WLR: Weekly Law Reports. Wallace v Sheppard – QBD 6 October 199Claimant: Donald Wallace Accident: Front seat passenger injured in car crash Injuries: Severe head injuries with increasing tendency towards epilepsy, continuing intellectual and memory deficit and impairment […]
LAWYERS who successfully challenged Croydon Council planners claim their case has set a precedent on the treatment of archeological remains threatened by construction work. They say the planning appeal judgment relating to a site in the centre of the south London borough clarifies Government policy. Croydon clashed with developers AXA Equity & Law over its […]
TWO top law firms have played key roles in generating discussion between the public and private sectors on initiatives which would rejuvenate blighted and derelict land. The City’s Denton Hall and national practice Eversheds were behind conferences which examined urban renewal schemes and initiatives for developing contaminated land. Both the events this month brought together […]
LINKLATERS & Paines has unveiled a joint venture with a German firm in a fresh attempt to crack the tough market for legal work in Frankfurt. The international practice is joining forces with Schon Nolte Finkelnberg & Clemm (SNFC) in January, to form a new outfit in the city, Linklaters & Schon SNFC. Last week’s […]
A JP has resigned in protest amid rows about magistrates liability to pay damages and costs to defendants on appeal. The resignation of Lincolnshire-based JP Joanne Atkinson rocked the Magistrates’ Association annual general meeting. The resignation follows an award by Mr Justice Sedley against Lincoln magistrates – not including Atkinson – several weeks ago and […]
New TUC figures show that RSI sufferers are winning more than £3 million in legal compensation a year from employers. Research shows that just over 2,300 RSI sufferers received compensation last year and the average level of the award was more than £1,400. TUC general secretary John Monks said the figures proved RSI did exist […]
NEW York-based Weil, Gotshal & Manges plans to open a major London office offering a UK law service to compete with the top domestic firms. Weil Gotshal already has six partners lined up, including four lawyers from top London firms. With a recruitment drive for serious City players, it hopes to open a 15 to […]
It’s October again and the beginning of another academic year. This year has seen the explosion of the Internet and the emergence of a new breed of technophile student. With over 30 colleges now offering either LPC and CPE courses, law departments are being forced to make IT a priority in the fight to attract […]
When President Chirac of France announced on 13 June 1995 that he would authorise a final series of eight nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific starting in September 1995 he can hardly have imagined the various international legal initiatives that would be set in motion by his actions. South Pacific residents in French territories […]