The Lawyer is awarding a fine bottle of Jameson’s smooth whiskey for the best letter published on this page each week. The winner is marked by the picture of a bottle of Jameson’s. You carried an article in the 24 January issue of The Lawyer about NHS Trust legal panels. Some of the information that […]
English & Overseas Investments was advised by McKenna & Co when refinancing a portfolio of properties with a u13.5m facility in favour of DepFa Bank
* Yorkshire Electricity Group was advised by Herbert Smith in relation to its u200m 9.25 per cent bond issue
*The controversial euthanasia theme gets an airing this week with the staging of ‘Whose Life is it Anyway?’ by the Bar’s top theatrical lights. David Dabbs, of Goldsmith Chambers, stars in and directs the Bar Theatrical Society production, playing from Tuesday to Friday at Lincoln’s Inn Old Hall. Dabbs plays a dying patient, and fellow […]
* The purchasers of Westminster Retail Park in Ellesmere Port for u2.225m were advised by Berg & Co, the vendors being advised by Halliwell Landau.
A SUSSEX barrister has been made bankrupt by the High Court. But John Mannion is continuing to practise as a barrister at Westgate Chambers in Lewes, East Sussex, where he is a tenant. Under the Bar Council’s code of conduct no automatic practise ban is imposed on barristers who have been declared bankrupt. Mannion’s bankruptcy […]
*Tickets have gone on sale for the Inns of Court Ball. This year’s annual summer event has been set for Saturday 24 June and will take place at the Inner Temple’s hall, rooms and gardens. The organising committee promises a fun-packed night to include music from chart-topping live acts. A ticket for two costs u150 […]
* The legal implications of glue sniffing will come under the House of Lords in the case of Regina v Morhall. In an appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeal the Law Lords are to be asked whether chronic addiction to glue-sniffing should be referred to by a trial judge as “a special characteristic” when […]
WILDE Sapte’s first full-time managing partner is retiring from the partnership to apply his management skills to a consultancy firm. Philip Brown became management partner at the City firm in 1988 and stood down last year to make way for Steven Blakeley. Brown, who is currently on sabbatical, was unavailable for comment. He will join […]
Six Scottish law firms worked with IT supplier CB Business Systems to launch a new specialist software package for the profession. For the past 18 months the group of firms, called the ‘inner sanctum’, has collaborated with CB in the development of the Signet 2000 package. This is the first time a computer company has […]
Specialist IT consultant Andrew Levison is joining legal management consultants the David Andrews Partnership (DAP), which recently merged with Grant Thornton. Levison, who joins from BDO Stoy Hayward, will be the lead consultant responsible for IT within DAP. The aim is to build up a team of specialists, with two based in London and one […]
Fennell Betson reports Four software firms have been chosen by Conquest for its IT supply and development panel. The 350-firm network manager has selected Avenue, Linetime, Solicitec and TFB as “recommended computer suppliers”. Conquest’s head of practice development Harry Ewins says the selection was made after a full examination of the market. “We sent questionnaires […]