DEFEATED Law Society presidential candidate Eileen Pembridge is calling on her successful rival to conduct a radical overhaul of the constitution. Pembridge has already held a meeting with Mears to press for a constitutional review which formed a central plank of both hers and council candidate Henry Hodge’s manifesto. Mears also called for reform, but […]
The last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of US lawyers who have moved to London. In addition to the expansion of US law firms such as Coudert Brothers and Sidley & Austin, several large English firms have hired US lawyers. Far from discouraging them, UK immigration rules contain special concessions […]
FORMER Inns of Court School of Law student Matthew Ricks has been forced to drop plans for a career at the Bar after the Council of Legal Education refused him a second resit on a module he failed by a single mark. Ricks, who asked the CLE to use its discretionary powers to grant another […]
John Dickey, a US attorney, casts an envious glance at the ceremony and traditions at the heart of the English Bar The US received its common law and procedure from England but rejected the pomp, ceremony and costumery associated with the dispensation of UK justice. Not for New World advocates silk or stuff gowns, horsehair […]
MPs are asking the Bar Council to examine the conduct of barristers in the Levitt fraud trial because of Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee fears about the prosecution misleading Parliament. The committee has also decided to publish most of the evidence supplied by lawyers acting in the case, seeing it as “in the public […]
MARTIN Mears says he will redraft the Law Society’s response to the legal aid Green Paper shifting the attack away from cash limiting and cutting out the rhetoric. Mears, who has cancelled a presidential trip to Chicago in order to work on the response to the Green Paper, wants to point the Law Society’s guns […]
Networking heaven, chocolate CDs and US connections – three conference veterans give their views of the annual shindig Nigel Meeson is a barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building Chambers, Temple The ABA conference – “probably the biggest lawyer’s jamboree in the world”. Or so it could aptly be described since it is very much a social […]
Lodging managers for High Court judges face three years of intensive cost-cutting if they are to avoid a series of closures and mergers, and a switch to hotel accommodation for overnight stays. A Courts Service report has recommended a cut in the annual average cost for housing each judge from £43,608 to £30,000.
THE SUCCESSFUL candidate in last November’s alderman elections for the City ward of Bread Street will this week appeal against the Court of Aldermen’s refusal to ratify his election. Malcolm Matson, who won the election by 54 votes to 15, is arguing against Mr Justice Latham’s refusal to quash the decision. Nominated for alderman by […]
Noise level condition in planning permission London Borough of Hillingdon and Secretary of State for Environment v Tesco Stores(1995) QBD 13/7/95 Summary: Council’s application to quash planning condition requiring the erection of an acoustic fence on the ground of the difficulty of giving effect to the condition. Application under Part XII Town and Country Planning […]
Roger Pearson examines the Yorkshire dinner ladies’ House of Lords bid to overcome backdoor discrimination The recent sex discrimination victory won in the House of Lords by three Yorkshire dinner ladies on behalf of themselves and 1,300 colleagues is regarded as a major victory in the battle to prevent public sector privatisation being used to […]
WILLIAM MALCOLM ADAMSON, 49, admitted 1972 and DAVID HEWITT, 43, admitted 1975, practised in partnership as Malcolm Adamson & Co, Heywood, Lancashire, struck off and reprimanded respectively and ordered to pay costs of £3,399 (Adamson 80 per cent and Hewitt 20 per cent). Allegations substantiated they failed to keep properly written accounts and wrongly drew […]