BARRISTERS and solicitors in London have been shaken by the sudden deaths of a clerk and a legal secretary who were killed in a horrific road crash over the recent bank holiday weekend. The 3 Gray’s Inn Square chambers of Rock Tansey QC, has paid tribute to Vicki Raynham, the driver of a Metro which […]
LONDON litigation practice Holman Fenwick & Willan has appointed Johnson Stokes & Master partner Gavin Nesbitt as its first-ever head of corporate law in Hong Kong. Nesbitt, who moved to Hong Kong in 1987 from London firm Simmons & Simmons, plans to expand the practice’s corporate portfolio by targeting listed companies in the colony. He […]
THE LAW Society has drawn up a shortlist of 40 Russian lawyers to vie for positions on its £250,000 UK-based placement programme. Funded by the European Commission’s Technical Assistance programme to the Commonwealth of Independent States (TACIS), the project deal was struck by the commission and the Brussels office of the Law Societies of England […]
CITY practices Oswald Hickson Collier and Elias Freeman Solicitors are planning to expand their international client base following a merger earlier this month. The new firm, which combines media law and insurance litigation with property and commercial expertise, also provides specialist advice on immigration and tax issues to clients relocating both from the UK and […]
Simmons & Simmons last week opened its Shanghai office, two months after the Chinese Ministry of Justice named it as the only UK practice to receive approval for the latest batch of licences. The new office, led by managing partner Wong Kwai Huen, boosts the firm’s international network to eight practices. “Over the last few […]
THE EUROPEAN Commission has expressed provisional support for plans to educate UK lawyers in European law. Directorate General 15, the commission body responsible for the internal market, last week told the Law Society that it agreed with the objectives of the Solicitors Diploma in European Law, which is expected to start in some teaching institutions […]
The new climate of litigation, engendered in part by Lord Woolf, encourages courts to take a more proactive role in the litigation. In Bristol and elsewhere, the Mercantile Courts are already streamlining litigation by involving the same judge throughout. Notwithstanding recent developments, the remaining faults in the jurisdiction include an imbalance in the treatment of […]
HACKNEY Council last week appointed a senior barrister to head an internal inquiry into its record on tackling fraud and corruption in the recruitment of town hall staff. Ian MacDonald QC will conduct a six-month investigation before reporting back to the north London authority with a set of recommendations. Other inquiry panel members are Hackney […]
Cyril Dixon A PUBLIC sector lawyer has been elected to the top job at the Law Society of Scotland for the first time since it was formed nearly half a century ago. Alan Boyd, legal adviser to Irvine Development Corporation, on the West Coast, took over as president from Kenneth Ross at the end of […]
These days it is common to see people quoting email addresses in correspondence and on business cards. In recent years the use of public email services has become widespread, through such services as the Internet or Compuserve which provide individuals with their own personal email service accessible by millions of people throughout the world. Most […]
Ashurst Morris Crisp advised Acorn Computer Group on its flotation
Cyril Dixon Eight councils have lost their legal bid to prevent the construction of a giant out-of-town shopping complex near Manchester. The House of Lords gave the go-ahead for the one million sq ft Dumplington development on a green field site at Trafford Park. They backed the proposals at the final hearing of a series […]