The Newspaper Society has recruited another lawyer to boost its legal advice service to regional newspaper editors. Carin Lake, previously with Clifford Chance and Goodman Derrick, joins as a part-time legal adviser in the society’s government and legal affairs department. The department also lobbies Parliament, Whitehall and Brussels for the industry. David Newell, society deputy […]
Speakers including Equal Opportunities Commission chair Kamlesh Bahl, European commissioner Padraig Flynn and Simon Sperryn of the London Chamber of Commerce will discuss whether equality is an expensive luxury at a conference at the Ramada Hotel, Gatwick this Friday. The one-day conference will draw together research findings and practical experiences from leading employers in the […]
The publicity for World Aids Day has put one giant condom on the Paris obelisk and floated another across the Thames. But few are aware that the Terrence Higgins Trust runs a legal advice service for HIV and AIDS-related problems. Although the Helpline is well-known, the trust’s legal services group recently decided its legal advice […]
CITY firm Wilde Sapte has appointed insolvency partner Mark Andrews to take over from Charles Leeming as senior partner in January. Andrews, who has been with the firm since 1976 and a partner since 1979, will continue to work in the insolvency department, where he acted in the recent Paramount Airways Appeal to the House […]
CITY firm Lovell White Durrant has lost a partner to clients Guinness. David Harlock, a partner at Lovells since 1992, will join Guinness in February next year, where he will be responsible for all the property work, some general commercial work and managing relationships with external legal advisers. “I have been doing property work for […]
MORE than 1,000 Irish law graduates, whose qualifications were called into question by a ruling of the High Court in Dublin, have had their position regularised by the Irish Law Society. The High Court decided the law graduates were not entitled to be exempt from the entrance exam to the society’s training course for solicitors, […]
COUNCILLORS at Lambeth are poised to hear the disciplinary case against suspended head of legal services Paul Lally. Three council members have been selected to sit on the all-party panel and although a date has not yet been set, the council says that the hearing is “imminent”. Lally was suspended earlier this year following an […]
COUNCIL lawyers and City firm Denton Hall combined in a successful bid to persuade MPs to extend an underground section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link in East London. Jack Welchman, solicitor at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, was advised by Sandra Banks’ Denton Hall team when the authority presented a petition to […]
Parliament should decide on who is able to claim for psychiatric illness induced by shocking events like the Hillsborough disaster and not the courts, says the Institute of Legal Executives. In its response to the Law Commission’s consultation on liability for psychiatric illness, Ilex says the latest medical research into psychiatric illness should be used […]
JAMAICA’S largest law firm Myers Fletcher & Gordon has opened a four-strong office in Hammersmith, London, signing two UK-trained lawyers to the practice. Sole practitioner Colleen Wilson has already been recruited by the Caribbean giant and City solicitor Michael Toohig will start later this year. The firm, which also operates in the British Virgin Islands, […]
Local authorities have featured prominently in recent High Court actions. There has been Somerset County Council’s bid to curb stag hunting on council-owned land; Waverley Borough Council’s stance over legal ownership of a medieval gold brooch found on its land by an amateur treasure hunter; action over the employment rights of dinner ladies after their […]
SOLICITORS and their clients will be significantly affected by any legal changes resulting from a Government-driven review of the law of joint and several liability, claim partnership experts. If the review recommends such changes, it could herald the adoption of proportional liability. Ronnie Fox, senior partner of Fox Williams and a partnership law specialist, said: […]