Dibb Lupton Broomhead’s head of pension law Sean Hand has left the firm’s City office in order to launch his own niche firm, Hand & Co. Hand’s aim is to provide a service to law firms which have no pensions law expertise to allow them to provide pensions advice to commercial clients. He proposes a […]
FLADGATE Fielder’s head of private client work Peter FitzGerald has switched to Wiltshire firm Wilsons. A second partner, also called Peter FitzGerald and his younger cousin, has left Fladgates to join the Salisbury-based practice which is building up its agricultural estates team. “I do not believe any private client, however wealthy, is happy with London […]
Penningtons partner Franco Bosi has switched from the firm’s City office to Basingstoke as part of a strategy to strengthen the
* Quill Computers has signed up four law firms for its accounting and time recording program. Kendall firm Powell & Sykes will be running the Laudit system on a single terminal; Hexham-based Nicholson Wood & Gregg is running this and a Quill database on its network; Coopers, a three-partner practice in Newcastle-under-Lyme, has bought the […]
COMPAS, the university-style clearing house scheme for pupillages, is creating a buzz around the Inns of Court, according to one of its chief promoters. So far, 12 common law sets have signed up to the Compas system, which aims to bring order to the current free-for-all annual pupil selection round. Christopher Purchas QC, of Raymond […]
John Malpas reports AN EX-BARRISTER is battling to force three judges to appear before an industrial tribunal to face charges that they breached race relations law when disbarring him. Rudy Narayan was disbarred in July 1994 following a Disciplinary Tribunal of the Inns of Court. He will take his case before a review hearing this […]
LAWYERS have hit out at a spate of misleading advertisements which suggest that unregistered properties are “unowned”. A number of solicitors have contacted HM Land Registry to complain after private clients were left thinking their homes were up for grabs. Peter Holt, a partner at Manchester-based Grundy Kershaw, says advertisements have given details of how […]
A BANKRUPTCY petition against Merseyside solicitor David Deacon has been has been rejected by the court. And now the founder of Liverpool firm Deacon Goldrein Green (DGG) has issued a writ against creditor NWS Trust for malicious presentation of the petition. Deacon, who left in 1992 when the partnership was dissolved, had argued that he […]
* Former London pub manager Lee St Rose, is heading for the High Court with a claim that he was shot by police while jogging with a friend in a London park. He claims police on an armed stake-out at a pub – not the one where he worked – chased him and that during […]
LAW firms are slashing fees and even offering to work for nothing in order to win beauty parades, it is claimed. But the trend for short-term price cuts will buy turnover not profit and will eventually backfire against fee-desperate practices, says a leading City lawyer. David McIntosh, senior partner at Davies Arnold Cooper, told a […]
SIX Albanian lawyers are visiting a selection of legal institutions as part of a fact-finding visit to the UK starting this week. The officials, visiting the country for three weeks, aim to get a full picture of the British process of justice. Hosted by the Lord Chancellor’s Department, the visit includes trips to the Old […]
London-based Harbottle & Lewis has issued a writ for libel on behalf of its client, Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli. The writ, issued to the editor and publishers of Screen International, alleges the magazine’s latest edition published a story suggesting Zeffirelli is a fascist member of the Italian parliament. Harbottles senior partner Michael Bowler says […]