MERSEYSIDE solicitor David Deacon, a founder of the collapsed Liverpool firm Deacon Goldrein Green (DGG), has been declared personally bankrupt. Petitioning creditors, Chester-based NWS Trust, last week successfully applied for the bankruptcy order at Liverpool County Court. Deacon, who left the 18 office firm two years before it became the biggest ever law firm receivership […]
FORMER Barlow Lyde & Gilbert salaried partner Justin Codrai has been ordered to be struck off following allegations that, among other things, he charged clients for first class air fares and in fact travelled business class. In written findings just published by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal following a hearing in December last year the tribunal […]
NABARRO Nathanson has snapped up Waltons & Morse electricity law specialist and former managing partner Robert Tudway for its growing energy practice. Tudway, who was with Waltons & Morse for 21 years, joined the Nabarro’s energy team last week as a partner, based in its company department and reporting directly to company head Peter Gorty. […]
Sheffield personal injury practice Irwin Mitchell has won a £925,000 damages pay-out for a man paralysed after a routine ear operation. Clive Hepworth was admitted to Huddersfield’s Nuffield Hospital in 1979, but lost feeling in his legs after an operation to clear a recurring infection in his left ear. An initial case in 1992 established […]
BAR leaders of over 20 countries will visit Scotland next month for the Faculty of Advocates fifth biennial weekend. The weekend, to be held from 18 to 20 May, will include a lecture by Lord Ross, the Lord Justice Clerk, and visits to the courts and advocates library. Alongside lawyers from New Zealand, Canada and […]
THE FOUNDER of Garrett & Co’s Reading intellectual property department has handed in his notice to set up his own firm. Marcus O’Leary’s resignation comes just over a year after his move to the Garrett & Co office from its Reading neighbours Pitmans. Both Garrett & Co and O’Leary stress his departure is entirely amicable, […]
Tenacious and often media targets, top fraud lawyers command respect from all sides, discovers Grania Langdon-Down Fraud lawyers need to be tenacious, prepared to stay the distance in a long campaign, and courageous in defending clients who are often portrayed by the press as public enemy number one. So say two specialists in white collar […]
Family law solicitor Richard Sax, past chair of the Solicitors Family Law Association, will speak on the Lord Chancellor’s proposals for divorce law reform following the annual general meeting of the London Marriage Guidance Council this week. His address – ‘Divorce law reform: good or bad?’ – will be given at 7.30pm on Wednesday at […]
SOLICITORS in London are to seek meetings with the Metropolitan Police to discuss problems they face representing clients held at stations. A newly-formed police liaison sub-committee of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association is now gathering complaints to raise with the force. Chair Colin Reynolds says most of the issues likely to be raised stem […]
Before assessing improvement, partners must decide on an appropriate yardstick for measuring profitability. Commercial lawyers are familiar with corporate performance where various indicators can be used to measure improvement – higher earnings per share, increase in the dividend rate and a straightforward rise in share price. An increase in a company’s profits in absolute terms […]
British firms have taken the top five places in an international league table based on knowledge of world energy laws. Allen & Overy came first for the second year running in the energy finance awards run by Petroleum Economist magazine. Slaughter and May came second, Clifford Chance third, Linklaters & Paines fourth and Herbert Smith […]
The former chief accountant of City firm Clyde & Co has appeared in court charged with defrauding the firm’s partners of £600,000. Peter Penrose, who worked for Clydes for four years, recently appeared before the City of London Magistrates.