Sixty delegates from colleges and universities throughout the UK have attended workshops on student discipline organised by the education department of Birmingham practice Martineau Johnson. The workshops were staged in response to a recent report published by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals which gave guidance to universities on action to take when they […]
John Malpas examines the divisions caused by legal aid reforms ANYONE doubting that legal aid reform did not arouse passions among practitioners and administrators alike need have looked no further than the recent Legal Action Group conference in London. A passionate assault on the status quo by a leading Law Centre figure and a colourful […]
Swedish police have tracked down what appears to be the largest cache of illegal software found on the Internet. An estimated $1.7 million of unauthorised software, including Word, Pagemaker, Photoshop and Autocad, has been illegally transmitted to Internet users world-wide by students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The Royal Institute of Technology, […]
Bridgwater firm Pardoes has been instructed by Millfield School, in Street, to sign a joint venture agreement between the independent school and top tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. Senior partner Colin Humphrey and entertainment law specialist Alison Whittingham worked on the contract which will enable Bollettieri, who coaches Boris Becker, to establish an international-standard tennis training […]
The role played by the law officers, SFO director George Staple and prosecution counsel in the Roger Levitt fraud trial comes under the spotlight when all leading counsel submit written evidence to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee this week. Submissions are expected from David Cocks QC, Levitt’s counsel Jonathan Goldberg QC, as well […]
TWO human rights barristers believe they may be on the verge of forcing an end to the “inhumane” US system that allows prisoners to languish on death row pending execution. Philip Sapsford QC and David Marshall fly out to the US this week in the wake of a Supreme Court order for the “death row […]
* Most local authorities have a positive approach to Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT), said the CCT and Local Government in the ‘England Annual Report for 1994’, published last week by the DoE. Environment Minister Robert Jones said although CCT had been extended to new services, fair competition was still promoted for existing services.
Mary Heaney
Law practices which acted as share shops for the PowerGen and National Power issue say they have not suffered a client backlash in the face of the post-launch debacle. Seven of the 130 share shops which handled the share issues last month were law firms, and reported high levels of interest from potential investors ahead […]
I wish to correct any misunderstanding that may have arisen by the reference to the Solicitors Staff Pension Fund in the cover story ‘Middle Temple hit by Barings fall’ (The Lawyer 28 March). For the record, the only part of the fund at risk during the period of administration was the credit balances held with […]
Solicitors with clients who invest in the traded endowment policies market have been warned to advise clients to guard against potential pitfalls when buying policies. Michael Lopian, of Manchester firm Lopian Wagner which acts for leading market maker Policy Portfolio in the area, says the rapid increase in investment in the field is revealing a […]
The Law Commission is calling for eased restrictions on compensation claims for psychiatric illness suffered by the relatives of victims of avoidable accidents. A consultation paper, issued last week, is seeking views on how easy it is for the bereaved to seek damages for conditions like traumatic stress disorder. The move follows a case in […]