Your focus on employment law (The Lawyer 21 March) was excellent. However, so far as your summary of the employment Bar is concerned I would like to make two points. First, Old Square Chambers undertakes a great deal of first rate respondent work and the ‘traditional’ emphasis on union work is misleading. Second, 4-5 Gray’s […]
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HUSBAND and wife team Geoff and Jane Morris have acquired the UK and European rights to develop and sell the ALS practice management system through Dart Legal Systems. For the past year Dart had been working with the system’s Australian proprietors to adapt the software for UK use. But communications problems have led to delays, […]
THE FOURTH ‘At a Glance’ booklet produced by The Family Law Bar Association is hot off the press. The booklet of court tables for ancillary relief has become universally recognised in family courts and proceedings up and down the country, according to editorial committee member Paul Coleridge QC of Queen Elizabeth Building. To order a […]
* The following jury cases are listed to be heard in the High Court Queen’s Bench Division in April: Ardmore Construction and Others v MGN L and Others (not before 10 April); Straton-James v MGN (not before 25 April); Bookbinder v Times Newspapers and Others (not before 25 April); Monson and Another v The Sunday […]
* The Law Lords have now given leave for Gerard O’Hara, who was arrested by the RUC in December 1985 under the 1984 Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act to appeal against Northern Ireland High and Appeal Court decisions rejecting his claims for damages for false imprisonment on the basis of unlawful arrest.
Two lawyers are among the founders of a new pan-professional association set up to “promote, regulate and maintain ethics and common standards” in the private equity funding capital market. Barrister Mark Watson-Gandy, of 3 Paper Buildings, and West Country-based solicitor Andrew Green helped start up the Private Equity Funding Association (PEFA), launched in London last […]
More than £20,000 has been raised by the Solicitors Benevolent Association following its recent Primrose Party. The party, which celebrated the appointment of solicitor Christopher Walford as Lord Mayor, was attended by more than 200 people.
WASHINGTON DC-based firm Crowell & Moring has established its London office as a multi-national partnership between English solicitors and US attorneys. The partnership, which is relocating to Fleet Street later this month, is taking advantage of the Law Society’s recent change in rules which will allow it to represent clients in litigation in courts in […]
The fierce competition for training places generates a vicious circle whereby LPC students, such as myself, cannot feel safe writing just to those firms we would like to join, for fear our applications may fail to stand out among the 800 – 1,500 others that an advertiser may receive. So as ‘insurance’ we feel obliged […]
The smooth conveyor belt to the Law Society’s highest offices has shuddered to a halt under the sheer weight of candidates – not one, but two new contenders for the presidency, and another challenges the deputy president. The moves have brought the vigour of overt politics into the council’s arena. This contrasts with the covert […]
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