NATIONAL practice Eversheds is merging its Leeds and Manchester offices to build a cross-Pennine powerhouse. The firm, the second-largest in the UK, will make the change on 1 June to coincide with its move to a single name. The two offices will remain open, but under a single management structure and combined profit centre. In […]
PRICING is the “great unresolved conundrum” when local authorities are outsourcing legal work, London Borough of Croydon’s solicitor to the council Miles Smith said last week. Speaking at the annual weekend school for local government lawyers, he said a substantial part of his local authority’s legal work, which was outsourced to local practice Stoneham Langton […]
East Anglian firm Birkett Westhorp & Long has denied that a split into two separate practices will affect the operations of its recently established financial services division. The Ipswich-based firm is to split from its Essex operation in June five years after merger. The Ipswich firm will remain with 24 partners, while the Colchester firm […]
LONDON commercial firm Barnett Alexander Chart has succeeded in striking an important deal to expand its work in the engineering industry. The company is to advise the Engineering Employers’ Federation South, which represents hundreds of businesses based in the South of England. Peter Moody, Barnetts’ head of marketing, says: “We have been working at this […]
Government inspectors have highlighted poor staff morale in an official report on a county magistrates’ court network. HM Magistrates’ Courts Service Inspectorate published the report after visiting the courts’ committee in Cheshire. It said the courts “run the risk of losing good staff” and made a number of recommendations to improve the service.
UNASSISTED appellants appearing before the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) will be offered free representation at preliminary hearings by specialist employment advocates. A new scheme, designed by the recently-formed Employment Law Bar Association (ELBA), answers a call for assistance from EAT president Mr Justice Mummery. ELBA has formed a panel of experienced advocates who will be […]
MASONS partner Richard Susskind, who is visiting professor to the Centre for Law, Computers and Technology at Strathclyde University, has been appointed as IT consultant to Lord Woolf’s inquiry into the civil justice system. Susskind, who is also past chair of the Society for Computers & Law, hopes to identify ways in which Lord Woolf’s […]
Whitchurch Group was advised by Eversheds Jaques & Lewis on its introduction to the Official List
Menzies Hotels & Leisure was advised by Amery Parkes on the investment in it of an undisclosed amount by the North of England Venture Fund
Wyko Group was advised by Wragge & Co in its one for two rights issue to raise around u7.85m.
Morgan Grenfell: council’s guarantee prohibited Council’s guarantee ultra vires Morgan Grenfell & Co v Sutton London Borough Council (1995). (QBD (Clarke J) 23/2/95). Summary: Local authority’s guarantee for unregistered housing association’s borrowing ultra vires and void. Claim by Morgan Grenfell & Co for u790,929 against Sutton London Borough Council under a guarantee and indemnity given […]
* Symonds Engineering was advised by Wragge & Co in its placing and open offer to raise u2.5m.