TRAINEE and newly qualified solicitors are burdened with debt worries and fears they may lose their jobs, according to a report out this week. The Trainee Solicitors’ Group survey based on the responses of 148 solicitors to questionnaires shows 54 per cent are worried about job security and 51 per cent concerned about debt. Less […]
A GENTLE reminder of the rather more clear-cut days of British justice when a criminal was “hanged by the neck until dead” has been put in place at Nottingham’s Galleries of Justice . The national tourist attraction is the proud owner of a full-scale replica set of 1880 gallows, which will be the centre piece […]
The annual Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference will debate the issues raised by the Lord Chancellor’s Green Paper which is expected to be published shortly before the event. The conference is being staged in Cardiff, from 28-29 April and will feature sessions led by the Legal Aid Board’s Steve Orchard and the Law Society’s legal […]
Consultants Robson Rhodes reports a good response to its annual IT questionnaire, with over 280 firms responding already. The aim is to exceed last year’s final response of 339. The consultants would like to hear from larger firms and those firms that have not previously responded to this survey. Responses will be accepted up to […]
Since its origins as a fashionable resort at the turn of the century, Cannes has steadily built up an array of options for the entertainment and pampering of its guests in staggering proportions.
Leading West Country businesses have signed up to a scheme offering health and safety advice set up by Bristol firm Osborne Clarke. So far 35 companies and institutions have joined the club established by Richard Bretton, head of Osborne Clarke’s health and safety unit. The services offered by the club feature free advice bulletins, workshops […]
Three law firms have completed what is believed to be the largest UK single office letting before construction. The pre-let transaction involved the acquisition and financing of Milton and Shire Houses in the City’s Silk Street, and the pre-let of the majority of the forthcoming development to Linklaters & Paines for its new international headquarters. […]
A SPECIALIST defamation firm which counts Private Eye among its clients is merging with well-known media practice Davenport Lyons. Four partners and five fee earners from Wright Webb Syrett’s litigation department will make the short trip from Soho Square to the Davenport Lyons Old Burlington Street offices, also in the West End, on Monday next […]
URGENT action to lobby the Lord Chancellor’s Department on conditional fee arrangements will be the first task of a new association for personal injury barristers launched this week. The Personal Injury Bar Association holds its inaugural meeting on 7 March, and organiser Matthias Kelly expects barristers country-wide to converge on the Gray’s Inn arbitration room […]
GA Properties, advised by Cobbett Leak Almond, has bought for u3.75m 12.8 acres of development land at Birchwood Science Park, Warrington, from Digital Equipment, advised by Vaudrey Osborne & Mellor.
THE LAW Commission has called for urgent reform of mental incapacity law following its exhaustive five-year study. A nine-point plan has been put forward to plug the “glaring gaps” in the current law on substitute decision-making. And it has come up with a string of other recommendations to protect vulnerable people from harm. Commissioners claim […]
The consequences of getting the introduction of conditional fees wrong are dire, so why is Lord Irvine rushing to introduce them? ask Richard Fox and Richard Evans. Richard Fox is honorary secretary of the London Solicitors Litigation Association (LSLA) and a partner at Kingsley Napley; Richard Evans is president of the LSLA and a partner […]