CHRISTOPHER JOHN HOBSON, solicitors clerk for Austerfields, Bridlington, North Humberside, banned from working for any further solicitors without written consent from Law Society and ordered to pay u570 costs. Allegations substantiated he misappropriated and/or misapplied funds held or received by firm for and on behalf of clients. Tribunal told investigations completed by 8 September last […]
MAGISTRATES and their clerks could face potential financial ruin amid fears that cash-strapped court committees will be unable to bail them out if they are billed for appeal costs. Thousands of poll-tax cases, winging their way through the courts, have re-ignited the issue of liability. And the Lord Chancellor’s Department (LCD) has refused to give […]
The financial services group, PVY are scheduled to keep a High Court date in March with investor protection agency, Fimbra. The case involves an estimated u6 million claim in which they accuse Fimbra of acting in bad faith by allegedly abandoning an agreement to provide professional indemnity insurance for Fimbra members.
A new legal recruitment consultancy has been set up by Hugh Kelly, former head of personnel at City firm Ashurst Morris Crisp. Kelly has co-founded Kellyfield Consulting with Mark Field, a former Freshfields corporate lawyer who has been working in recruitment with Quarry Dougall. Kelly says: “As a client in legal recruitment over the last […]
HAMMOND Suddards debt collection manager Richard Helliwell has left the Leeds firm because he claims he was in disagreement with partners over the restructuring of his department. Helliwell, who has joined Halifax firm Wilkinson Woodward & Ludlam, says the move was prompted by the appointment of partner Simon Stell as day to day manager of […]
The present policy of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute for common assault, only supports the theory widely reported in the media, that a large proportion of the population lives in almost daily fear of violence. As the criminal courts will not help, increasingly I have found the civil courts a more effective forum. […]
Mark Jamieson has joined Moores Rowland Consulting as a senior manager responsible for professional firms. He has moved from Allen & Overy where he had been manager, practice management systems since 1992. At the City firm he was responsible for the selection and implementation of the Elite practice management system, which has been in operation […]
EMPLOYED barristers have won the right to stand for election to the Bar Council posts of vice-chairman and chairman after a widely-supported vote for constitutional change. The change could also lead to the Bar having its first employed chairman in around two years from now, in the form of Michael Blair, head of policy and […]
A LAW firm has teamed up with its local chamber of commerce to encourage companies to sign up to a free legal advice hotline for employees. Small to medium size companies are being targeted in the scheme, believed to be unique, run jointly by solicitors Palmer Wheeldon and the Cambridge and District Chamber of Commerce. […]
The IFA Association, professional indemnity insurers LIBM and their solicitors DJ Freeman have won leave to apply for judicial review of guidance from the Securities and Investments Board (SIB). The guidance ordered independent financial advisers to review cases in order to encourage possible claims against them of mis-selling of pensions. It is estimated that the […]
FORMER Freshfields partner Ian Fisher has defected to West End firm Fladgate Fielder saying the move will allow him more scope to pursue his institutional property speciality. Fisher was a partner for 15 years in City-based Freshfields’ commercial property department, but says he feels domestic institutional work was being marginalised there. In a second commercial […]
Roger Pearson reports on a nanny fighting for the right of entry into the UK IMMIGRATION law will come under the spotlight in a High Court case in which it is alleged application of UK immigration policies conflict with rights under European law. The case involves an Italian Contessa whose Brazilian-born maid and nanny is […]