Hull-based Philip Hamer & Co has installed two video-conferencing units and plans to buy more. Senior partner Philip Hamer, who has been watching the area develop for 12 years, says: “Teleconferencing has at last come of age.” He attributes this to the fall in equipment prices. The Intel computer cards cost about u2,000 and the […]
The Lord Chancellor is to sell the old Knightsbridge Crown Court complex located at 1 Hans Crescent. The court has been sitting in Southwark since the closure of the Knightsbridge building last year.
THE AUDITOR investigating complaints about Wandsworth council’s housing policy has told counsel their advice was wrong. James Goudie QC and Nigel Giffin, of 11 King’s Bench Walk, advised that the borough’s policy of selling off empty council homes was “in principle capable of being lawful”. But the Wandsworth auditor, in line with the view taken […]
The Lawyer is pleased to announce the 1995 Legal National Five-a-Side football tournament in conjunction with Arsenal Football Club. The competition is open to all members of the legal profession and those associated with it. So law firms, barristers’ chambers, in-house legal departments and courthouse staff are invited to field teams. The event will kick […]
In an extraordinary move, all 27 tenants at 3 Paper Buildings, Samuel Parrish’s chambers, have applied to join Plowden Buildings. A decision will be taken this Saturday. The expanded set will be one of the largest sets in Temple with between 55 and 60 barristers. Paul Hurst, senior clerk at Plowden Buildings, said: ‘If a […]
Duo Developments (Rochdale), advised by Addleshaws Sons & Latham, has bought a development site for an undisclosed sum from Rochdale Borough Council, advised by its in-house legal department. The company entered into an agreement for lease with Secretary of State for the Environment, advised by Alsop Wilkinson, to develop the site as a benefit office […]
Britannia Building Society was advised by Slaughter and May in the syndicated u425m dual currency revolving credit agreement
Kimberley Hotels was advised by Eversheds Hepworth & Chadwick in relation to an enterprise investment scheme.
Pillar Property Investments, advised by Gouldens, has bought Churchgate House and Lee House in Manchester for u20m from Team Group, advised by Gorna & Co.
FORMER prisoners of war held by the Japanese during World War II may receive compensation by the end of the year if legal action started last month is successful. UK solicitor Martyn Day, who is working on the case with a team of Japanese lawyers, says pay-outs may be secured for almost 25,000 Allied PoWs […]
THE FINANCIAL threat to magistrates is illustrated by the case of a railway clerk who was forced to tap into his life savings to pay a costs order. The late Lord Lindgren, who sat on the Welwyn bench, faced a bill of u599 after a defendant successfully appealed to the Divisional Court. The LCD refused […]
Foreign lawyers in the UK will find their feet and some useful contacts with the aid of networks. Nicole Maley reports Networks are the current buzz word. From the formal business generating UK groupings to the looser pan-global associations, lawyers like to “network”. But when you are a foreign lawyer working in a new country […]