The results of The Lawyer survey on attitudes to the change in the law affecting a suspect’s “right to silence” make alarming reading. The raison d’etre of the law, that less “guilty” people would escape justice, seems at odds with the findings which reveal that six in ten solicitors believe that there is no change. […]
Davies Wallis Foyster acted for Admiral Leasing in a £7.5 million refinancing. Addleshaw Sons & Latham acted for a syndicate led by Bank of Scotland. Herbert Smith advised Kleinwort Benson.
Eversheds in Leeds advised NatWest on the introduction of DBS Management to AIM. Hammond Suddards advised DBS and NatWest Markets Corporate Finance.
Ashurst Morris Crisp acted for the Church Commissioners for England on a 200-year lease at 10 per cent gearing for £325 million to Capital Shopping Centres, advised by Nabarro Nathanson.
When solicitor Anne Hind, of Blackpool-based firm John Budd & Co, took on a client seeking legal advice over ownership of a medieval brooch he had found, she could not have anticipated the extent to which the case would run. And Hind’s experience and her past brushes with the laws of treasure trove did little […]
“Plaintiffs’ costs, not to be enforced without leave; legal aid taxation.” This is the standard form of order against a legally-aided litigant but its effect is rarely considered. In Parr v Smith 26 January 1994, the Court of Appeal examined the statutory basis for this order and found two limitations. The first of these is […]
Dibb Lupton Broomhead is targeting in-house lawyers with a series of employment law training programmes to run over coming months. The programme, which has already been presented to personnel professionals, will educate in-house teams on the latest developments in the area and on the input coming from Europe. The first event will be held at […]
ALMOST 1,000 lawyers from around the globe converge on London this week for the 39th Annual Congress of the Union Internationale des Avocats. The congress, running at the Grosvenor House Hotel until 7 September, examines the way the legal profession should deal with changes in the run-up to the 21st century. Representatives from each of […]
“HE is so young, he’s just a boy. You wouldn’t even think he was 11,” says a home counties solicitor of her young client. The child is due to be tried soon for a very serious offence which he confessed to after a barrage of police questioning which lasted for 45 minutes. The lawyer, a […]
TROUBLED New York firm Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon is reportedly in crisis following failed attempts to secure a merger partner. The 190-lawyer practice, which once courted Coudert Brothers, last week lost its executive committee chair John Kirby who resigned his position after partnership disputes. He remains a partner. White collar defence lawyer Kenneth […]
Theodore Goddard competition group head Guy Leigh will address a meeting of the British Italian Law Association at the firm’s Aldersgate Street offices at 6.30pm on 19 September. Leigh, who advised an interested party in the Magill case, will discuss its implications for copyright owners. The cocktail reception afterwards will be attended by a visiting […]
Local authority legal services have traditionally focused on the quality rather than the cost of services. Historically, there was no need to cost individual services and work would be allocated by reference to the most experienced available fee earner, rather than the cheapest. This approach is no longer practicable without demonstrating that a more effective […]