BAR leader Peter Goldsmith QC will chair a new International Bar Association steering group examining the globalisation of law. Initiated by IBA president Professor Ross Harper, the group, which also includes former president of the American Bar Association William Ide III and current chair of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of the European […]
A 20-member Scottish delegation, including the president and vice-president of the Law Society of Scotland, will visit the European institutions and the UK’s Brussels-based Permanent Representation Unit later this month. The two-day visit, to be held on St Andrew’s Day and 1 December, is the third in a series organised by the joint Brussels office […]
THE TWO-PARTNER practice set up by intellectual property expert David Llewelyn last year is signing up with West End firm Boodle Hatfield. Llewelyn, who left McKenna & Co with Clive Zietman to launch Llewelyn Zietman, said the association would give his practice more clients and resources. He added Llewelyn Zietman would benefit from additional clients […]
City firm Allen & Overy has signed up Lucjan Jarzynski as a Polish legal assistant in its Warsaw office. Jarzynski has joined from the Polish Senate’s legal department, where he had been working on Polish draft legislation. His appointment takes the number of Polish legal assistants in the office to six.
Courts are now able to confiscate profits gained through “serious and acquisitive crime” by persistent offenders following the enforcement last week of the Proceeds of Crime Act 1995. The Act means criminals face losing their homes, cars and possessions if courts believe they have been bought with the proceeds of crime. “It cannot be right […]
STAFF at the Crown Prosecution Service have welcomed the Government’s decision not to turn it into a Next Steps agency but say the future is still uncertain for the service. The announcement to preserve the service’s status as a government department was made by Attorney General Sir Nicholas Lyell. In an answer to a parliamentary […]
LABOUR is backing two trades unions in condemning plans to “privatise” computer and administration functions in the courts service. The government plans, involving its private finance initiative, are going through without judicial consultation or parliamentary debate. The unions intend to write to all judges, from the circuits to the Supreme Court bench, and MPs to […]
Did Lloyd’s conceal the nature and scale of liabilities arising from asbestos claims, and thereby mislead the market? Evidence culled from the reports of US law firms combined with insiders’ information and Lloyd’s own statistics suggest this may be the case, say some lawyers. If this were proved the disastrous consequences for Lloyd’s would be […]
Chute v St Aubyn – QBD 20 October 1995 Claimant: Julia Mary Susan Chute, 4Accident: Housewife and mother, received severe burns after methylated spirit caused barbecue to flare up Injuries: Extensive burns to arms, hands, abdomen, chest, neck, lower face and forehead, estimated at 21 per cent of total body surface area. Treated first with […]
Helen Sage reports City firm Titmuss Sainer Dechert claims it is the first law firm to have migrated to Windows 95. Since the firm’s upgrade programme began in June this year, 90 of its administrative staff have switched smoothly from Wordperfect for DOS to Word 7.0 and Windows 95. The contract, carried out by consultants […]
THE LEGAL bill for the battle between the Quantock Staghounds and Somerset County Council has been slashed by £80,000 by a High Court taxing master. Among the expenses disallowed from the bill submitted by the successful hunt team, was the cost incurred by sending counsel Michael Beloff QC on an outing intended to familiarise him […]
LIVERPOOL solicitor Kash Mahmood is sitting on a potential new market after the destruction of an old one. The Abenson & Co assistant was called in by his market trader father Shafqat after the premises he sold from were gutted by fire. And the family connection may provide further business, as 18 of his father’s […]