Mick Kavanagh The Law Society has warned that applications by its members to win approval to conduct discrete investment business is now falling behind schedule. Previous society predictions suggested that up to 800 individuals might wish to apply for ‘qualified person’ status on behalf of their firms, which must be obtained by 1 November deadline […]
THE COUNCIL of Bars and Law Societies of the European Union was due to continue its debate on rights of establishment at a meeting in Brussels last weekend. Speaking prior to the meeting the Law Society’s international director Hamish Adamson said it was impossible to predict its outcome. However, a report released by the society’s […]
They came from all over the UK, their hearts set on a prestigious cup, their goal to beat the cream of the nation’s football-playing lawyers. Norton Rose walked away with the cup. Another 120 teams left with the memory of a good day’s play at Arsenal’s famous Highbury grounds. There were a couple of scuffles, […]
UK firm BC Toms & Co has established a permanent presence in Odessa after opening a project office in the city in December. The office, headed by UK solicitor Peter Fullerton, was originally opened to accommodate the 17-lawyer firm while it handled the country’s largest construction project – the building of a hotel. Managing partner […]
The shock House of Lords ruling on Paramount, which makes administrators and receivers liable to claims from redundant company staff, will lead to increased litigation worth hundreds of millions of pounds, say top lawyers and accountants. There will also be more dissatisfied creditors, and possible bankruptcy for some insolvency practitioners (IPs). But the only people […]
That franchised firms got the lion’s portion of the meagre pay-out in this year’s criminal legal aid fees uplift brought understandable howls of fury. The even more unequal treatment for Green Form work rubbed salt in the wound. The Lord Chancellor clearly decided to reward firms which franchised after criticisms that there was not sufficient […]
The British Czech and Slovak Law Association has appointed a new president and chair to take it into a “new kind of relationship” with the European republics. At its annual general meeting this month, attended by the Czech and Slovak ambassadors together with their diplomatic staff, Professor Roy Goode and Stephen Rayner, of Rayner, De […]
* Two Austrian firms have opened offices in Brussels following Austria’s membership of the EEA. Schoenherr Barfuss Torggler & Partners opened in the city as did Heller, Lober, Bahn & Partners.
THE CHINESE government has granted its latest batch of licences to foreign firms looking to set up offices in the People’s Republic of China. Sixteen firms were granted licences last week by the Ministry of Justice, bringing the number of foreign firms with licences to around 70. London practice Simmons & Simmons was the sole […]
THE SUPREME Court Taxation Office has launched a revised version of its pilot scheme for a radically faster and cheaper taxation process, after the failure of its first scheme last year. The SCTO dropped elements that had triggered concern among lawyers and which led to an almost non-existent take-up of the earlier scheme. The pilot […]
Observers prepared to watch a battle for supremacy when Nabarros set up in Sheffield. But the firm refused to play. When Nabarro Nathanson rode into town four years ago, Sheffield’s big guns prepared for a legal showdown. “When Nabarros arrived we had to reposition ourselves,” admits Dibb Lupton Alsop regional managing partner Paul Firth. The […]
MEADE King’s Bath branch office has de-merged with its Bristol headquarters to join forces with its neighbour Stone King & Wardle. Senior partner at the Meade King satellite office Tom Charrington describes the move as the best solution to the problem caused by a freeze on expansion at his office. Although he stresses the office […]