Central London firm Finers has placed a £50,000 order with Axxia Systems. The order calls for an integrated IT system, comprising networked PCs, a Unix server from Digital Equipment and software to connect the firm’s fee earners to central information resources. At the core is Axxia’s Arista practice management system which includes Fee Earner Desktop, […]
The Association of Legal Technology Suppliers (Alts) met last week to discuss accusations made by the Law Society against a number of its members. Alts chair John Meehan, of Management Support Systems, said: “The association has become stronger in the face of some of the Law Society’s accusations that suppliers are not doing their job […]
It is six years since I wrote Inside The Brotherhood, yet I still receive half a dozen letters each month from people who believe their businesses and lives have been ruined by masonic conspiracy in the legal profession. I receive thick files about shady planning decisions, disputed inheritances, unfair dismissal claims, bank malpractice and all […]
NatWest Group has pre-let 80,000 sq ft of office space in Birmingham to Eversheds. The space is the first phase of the redevelopment of the city’s Colmore Centre. The firm, which is already a tenant of NatWest in the centre, will move into the building on completion of the development in 1998. The demolition of […]
LAW firms are seeing a sharp increase in commercial work in contrast to legally aided or private client work. Nearly half the firms surveyed in accountants Grant Thornton’s 1995 Solicitors’ Inter Firm Comparison found that 1995 was more buoyant than previous years. Over a quarter of firms (28 per cent) saw a decline in legal […]
Biddle & Co is acting for Frank Dick, former British Athletics Federation director of coaching, in a libel and slander action against The Sunday Times. The firm is claiming damages and an injunction against the paper and former sprinter Drew McMaster over an article about the supply of anabolic steroids.
James Edward Walker, 49, admitted 1972, practised at material times on own account in Theale, Reading, Berkshire, struck off and ordered to pay £675 costs. Allegation substantiated he was jailed for three years at Southwark Crown Court on 8 November 1994, after being convicted of conspiracy to use false instruments and two counts of conspiracy […]
The long summer vacation is a good time to sneak out bad news. While French lawyers were on their yachts, a decree was passed on 15 August denying business graduates access to legal studies, thanks to lobbying by hard-core traditional lawyers. This will mean only those with a first degree in law can go on […]
POTENTIAL disputes among the top ranks at Baker & McKenzie will be resolved through alternative dispute resolution rather than in the courts after the firm voted to alter its partnership agreement. The change comes after partners showed preliminary support for the proposal at the firm’s annual partnership meeting in Chicago last month. Partners across the […]
FORTY lawyers have signed up for a new UK network aimed at practitioners who advise police forces and authorities. The Association of Police Lawyers was officially launched last month after operating on an informal basis for eight years. Chris Porteous, solicitor for the Metropolitan Police, has been named president, John Kilbey, West Midlands Police solicitor, […]
Landlord’s appeal for breach of repairing covenant British Telecommunications v Sun Life Assurance Society (1995). CA (Nourse LJ, Roch LJ and Hutchison LJ) 28/7/95. Summary: Landlord’s duty under a repairing covenant where a defect occurs not in the demised premises themselves but in the building of which the demised premises form part. Defendant landlord’s appeal […]
National Lottery organisers Camelot Group is being sued for damages over its refusal to allow a company to become a lottery retailer. RG Elms and Sons, of Hillingdon, Middlesex, has issued a writ claiming damages for breach of alleged contract last November. It claims that under the contract it was to become a lottery retailer. […]