The recommendations in Lord Woolf’s interim report to the Lord Chancellor will send a shiver down the spine of any litigator who routinely deploys discovery “siege gun” tactics in the conduct of large cases. It is well known that the existing rules of Order 24 provide the opportunity for the parties and their advisers to […]
Nigel Shepherd is worried that mediation will cut lawyers out of the divorce process The 1990s must have come as a rude shock to any family lawyer who had been hoping for a quiet life. First came the Children Act, then we were hit by the Child Support Act. And now it seems likely we […]
Leicester firm Harvey Ingram advised retailer Stead & Simpson Group in the provision of £10 million-plus additional equity funding and new banking facilities. The arrangements
Pinsent Curtis acted for JKX Oil and Gas in its £45 million flotation. The UK company sold 35 per cent of its equity via a placing to institutional shareholders
Judge Fallon, senior judge at Bristol Crown Court, is a passionate believer in the merits of computers in court. He talked in 1991 about a “horse and cart to motor car” transition when describing the process of getting lawyers and judges to use computers. “The problem with the early motor car was that it was […]
Policewoman Michaela Hawkes, 28, of Littlehampton, has launched High Court action over whiplash injuries she received in a 1989 road accident. Her writ says she was a front seat passenger in a car driven by Vanessa Phillips, of Southampton, when it was in collision with a car driven by Rowland Hart on the A27 near […]
Seventy per cent of US lawyers use technology on a daily basis, according to a study commissioned by Pitney Bowes Management Services (PBMS). The study on the impact of technology on the legal profession questioned 200 partners and associates from top law firms across the US. It claims that although 84 per cent of respondents […]
Robert Martin analyses The Lawyer/Coopers & Lybrand 1995 survey of firms’ financial management and finds good news It was another good year for the profession, according to the fourth annual The Lawyer/Coopers & Lybrand survey. It was also a year of contrasts. Profits were up, with more firms taking on professional staff, but climbing the […]
INTERNATIONAL giant Baker & McKenzie has merged with Santiago practice Cruzat, Ortuzar & Mackenna, to establish the first multi-national law firm in the city. The firm, which has more than 50 offices in 34 countries across the globe, already operates a strong Latin American network with offices in Caracas, Bogota, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Rio de […]
WILLIAM RAYMOND HAYNES, admitted 1981, practised as Haynes & Co, London SW12, struck off and ordered to pay £1,525 costs. Allegations substantiated he failed to cooperate with Solicitors Indemnity Fund or its agent in order to enable notified claim in respect of which indemnity was provided to be dealt with appropriately, failed to comply with […]
Malcolm McPherson is the managing partner at Henderson Boyd Jackson, Edinburgh. He was born in Edinburgh in 1954. What was your first job? Truck driver What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £950 pa. What would you be doing if you hadn’t become a lawyer? Boat builder. Which law could you live without? […]
Keith Ryan reports on a recent case which makes it easier to sue a professional adviser A recent decision by the House of Lords could open the floodgates to legal actions for negligence against professional advisers. Accountants, solicitors, architects and surveyors can now be sued about disputed events which happened many years ago. All the […]