Leading legal IT consultant John Irving is joining BDO Stoy Hayward as director of the professional practices unit. Irving, who has been running his own consultancy for over a year since leaving Robson Rhodes, says: “I am delighted with the development.” The move will enable him to undertake larger projects which he says he had […]
Samsung Electronics (UK), advised by Coudert Brothers, has bought 200 acres in Cleveland from: Cameron Hall Developments and Wynyard Estates, advised by Archers; Wynyard Estates, and English Partnerships, advised by Wilkinson & Maughan.
THE LATEST breakdown of the judiciary based on sex and ethnic background confirms the continued dominance of the white male. According to the Lord Chancellor’s Department there are just six women High Court judges out of a total of 93 on 1 March this year. Out of the 453 circuit judges, 27 are female and […]
Andrew Carruthers The growth of pensions disputes continues unabated. It leads to an understandable worry about costs and delay, although the originating summons procedures in RSC 0.28 provide a flexible litigation system, commended recently to Lord Woolf. Nevertheless, it has rivals. There are attempts to encourage specialist alternative dispute resolution; will solicitors support this? More […]
London’s Cafe Royal is being sued for damages by a 70-year-old woman who fell off a platform there during a gala evening. Eira Pazzi-Axworthy, of St Albans, has issued a writ against Perry’s Catering of London N16. She was injured on 6 December 1992, as she went to leave the raised platform where she had […]
Arcadian International was advised by Clifford Chance on its placing and open offer to raise u13.8m net
NIGEL LAWRENCE DUCKWORTH, who worked as litigation clerk with Hutchinson & Buchanan of Ripon, North Yorkshire, from July 1988 to June 1991, banned from working for any further solicitors without written consent from Law Society and ordered to pay u1,189 costs. Tribunal told that in November 1993 he appeared at Bradford Crown Court where he […]
THIS YEAR’S National Mock Trial Competition winner is Our Lady of St Patrick’s College from Belfast. Lord Chief Justice Taylor presided over the grand final of the competition for state secondary schools held at Southwark Crown Court on 25 March. Sixteen schools took part in the finals, but in total 1,800 pupils have taken the […]
Last year five law firms in Birmingham took the unusual step of getting together to co-ordinate a joint approach to training. Under the auspices of the ‘Investor in people’ project organised by Birmingham Tec, the firms, Edge & Ellison, Wragge & Co, Evershed Wells & Hind, Martineau Johnson and Shakespeares decided to pool resources to […]
Fennell Betson reports City Firm Denton Hall is determined to mark its arrival on the World Wide Web. As there are 27,000 sites to be viewed on the web, the firm decided to run a competition for the best lawyer jokes and a legal problem spot, says Mark Turner, partner and head of the technology […]
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John Malpas reports A JOURNALIST who conducted his own defence against a libel action has accused the barrister and solicitors who acted for the plaintiffs of unethical conduct. Peter Cotterell has filed formal complaints to both the Bar Council and the Solicitors Complaints Bureau after the action against him was discontinued shortly before it was […]