COMPETITION law specialist Geraldine Tickle has left Birmingham firm Wragge & Co to join local rivals Martineau Johnson. Tickle has been charged with developing her new firm’s commercial agreements and competition law service alongside its expanding intellectual property department. She was made a partner at Wragge & Co four years ago where she led the […]
THE BRITISH Library’s director of administration Raymond Ball has been appointed as chief executive of the Institute of Legal Executives. Ball combines the posts of secretary general and director of forward planning, vacated after the coming retirement of Leonard Evans and Cyril Broom. “My first task will be to learn a great deal more about […]
Approximately 150 people including Master of the Rolls Sir Thomas Bingham attended last week’s official launch of the British South African Law Association at the Law Society. The association, which held its first meeting in March, already has a substantial membership. Its first annual general meeting will be held on 3 July to elect officers […]
THE COMMISSION for Racial Equality has dropped plans for a formal investigation into allegations of racial discrimination at the Inns of Court School of Law (ICSL), instead entering into a written agreement on race relations with the Council of Legal Education. But the CRE claims it has not backed down from probing race issues at […]
ATTORNEYS from EcoPeace, a major new Middle Eastern environmental law organisation, will be the guests of UK environmental lawyers this week to raise awareness of pressing issues in their region. EcoPeace is a coalition of established environmental law groups in Israel, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan. All the eight main member bodies, two from each country, […]
As a growing number of contractors join the rush of private sector businesses trying to get into private finance initiative schemes (PFI), lawyers from construction firms have found themselves thrust into the eye of the storm. This is a more commercial role for the construction lawyer as a natural consequence of the changing business focus […]
The Law Society’s deputy head of communications Jonathan Goldsmith has been appointed as the head of international practice, succeeding Hamish Adamson. Goldsmith will take on his new role on 1 October, a month before Adamson, who has held the title since 1987, retires. Goldsmith, who manages the society’s five regional offices and its Brussels office, […]
ANTHONY Scrivener QC has sparked a heated argument between two local authorities by issuing controversial legal advice which threatens the jobs of 600 county council workers. The leading barrister told executives at Hull City Council that most of them were entitled to keep their jobs after it merges with the county, Humberside, next year. His […]
THE LAW Society has called on MPs to set up a new independent body to oversee the future selection of judges. A new Judicial Appointments Commission was one of the key proposals in the society’s submission on judge selection procedure to the Home Affairs Select Committee last week. The commission would produce more objective appointments […]
At first glance the success of English law firms in developing and sustaining markets for their services in international construction may appear as improbable as export successes like the M&S sandwich and Four Weddings and a Funeral. In reality our leading position in this market results from a number of factors. First, as a result […]
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a new International Criminal Court could be approved by the end of the year if a resolution put to the International Bar Association council is accepted. In a proposal due to go before the council’s 156 members last weekend, IBA president J Ross Harper says the court would have subject-matter jurisdiction over […]
EX-PARTNERS of Deacon Goldrein Green (DGG), the collapsed Liverpool legal aid firm now in liquidation, are being sued for negligence by the wife of former partner David Deacon. The action is likely to become a claim on the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF). The writ, issued in Liverpool’s District Registry, names nine individual partners, including Deacon […]