This week, The Lawyer is organising a conference Financial Services – an expanding niche market for solicitors. The Thursday conference will look at how solicitors can create and expand their financial services business. Contact Steve Warshal on 0171 287 9800. SIFA is also organising a conference next month entitled Achieving success in financial services. The […]
Paul Mitchard Lord Woolf’s proposals may in the long term remove or mitigate the problem but at present RSC Order 38 Rule 38 does little to encourage agreement between experts in a way which promotes a narrowing or reduction of the issues at an early stage. The Chancery and Queen’s Bench Division practice is typically […]
TOP criminal advocate Anne Rafferty QC is understood to be in the running for the vice-chairmanship of the Bar. She is among four QCs believed to be fighting for the nomination. Rafferty, of 4 Brick Court, has been chair of the 2,000-member Criminal Bar Association since May and served on the Royal Commission on Criminal […]
Contempt of defective committal order C v Hackney London Borough Council (1995). CA (Leggatt LJ, Aldous LJ and Hutchison LJ). Summary: Error in activating suspended sentence corrected without causing injustice: A father twice breached an order prohibiting him from removing his child from its guardian and was sentenced to two suspended sentences totalling three months […]
COLLEAGUES of murdered senior partner Nigel Lightfoot have paid tribute to a “kind and generous friend”. The Southampton legal community was left shocked by the fatal stabbing of the Lamport Bassitt senior partner last week. The 60-year-old father-of-three was attacked after opening the front door of his family home to the assailant. He died within […]
NATHLYN SONIA BERTLYN COCHRANE, 40, admitted 1984, practised as Cochrane & Co, Walthamstow, London E17, fined £1. Allegations substantiated she failed to pay counsel’s fees when due and failed to respond to correspondence from Bar Council and SCB. Tribunal told Cochrane entered ill-fated venture with Michael Grant, a solicitor who had been struck off for […]
EUROPE could institute a community-wide ruling on limited liability if proposals before the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union (CCBE) prove fruitful. The details emerged at the International Bar Association’s (IBA) 12th Biennial Conference on the section on business law in Paris last week. Member states vary in their approach to […]
A MAJOR Liberal Democrat policy paper on legal reform is to be unveiled at the House of Commons next week. The paper, to be called Access to Justice, will provide a benchmark for lawyers ass-essing the different approach of the three major parties to law reform. It has been produced by the Liberal Democrat Lawyers […]
A Sutton woman ‘widowed’ a fortnight before she was to be married, is seeking compensation in respect of her fiance’s death. Pauline Whybrow’s fiance fell to his death from scaffolding in a building site accident two years ago. She is suing the former employers of Stuart Whybrow, SGB Services of Isleworth, Middlesex. The writ says […]
Practitioners around the world are taking steps to restrict their potential liability as aggrieved clients become increasingly willing to take action against their lawyers, a new report claims. Produced by the International Bar Association’s committee on insurance, Liability of lawyers and indemnity insurance charts a boom in negligence claims against lawyers in recent years. In […]
Linda Tsang reports Dundas & Wilson, leading legal practice in Scotland, has chosen Netware 4.1 as the base for its IT infrastructure. Part of a major IT investment to provide the business with a scalable information systems platform, Netware 4.1 will provide centrally managed business services to 300 employees at Dundas offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow […]
Write to: The Editor, The Lawyer, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX, Fax 0171-734 0534 The more I consider the John Edge conveyancing fee initiative the more I think it is misconceived. The backlash has already started and it will further tarnish the image of the profession. Over the past five years I have grossed, […]