Lincoln’s Inn firm Kingsford Stacey is buying a u250,000 system from Edinburgh-based supplier HG Usher & Co. The 13-partner firm is buying an 80-terminal system for practice management and word processing and includes both software and hardware. It will be implementing the U-Legal Unity Practice Management software along with WordPerfect 6 word processing package. The […]
I am writing regarding an article in The Lawyer 13 December. The article concerned comments by Professor Nigel Savage of Nottingham Law School and my observations on his statement. Unfortunately, you associated me with the wrong institution. I am head of Professional Legal Studies at De Montfort University Leicester which runs an LPC programme. We […]
The Law Society’s sideways look at other UK professions and how they are organised shows that the grass is not that much greener elsewhere. Most of the professions under scrutiny are being squeezed by increased external regulation and a more demanding public. Total self-regulation is a thing of the past – no profession is an […]
14 February 1995 has been set for the committal hearing before magistrates at Gloucester in the case of builder Fred West, 53, and his wife Rosemary, 41. They face charges of murdering nine young women whose remains were found at their home in Cromwell Road Gloucester. Fred West also faces a further three charges of […]
The Society for Computers & Law with the Law Society has issued a video to drive home to law firms the opportunities IT presents. Based on a presentation at last October’s Law Society conference, ‘No IT please – we’re solicitors’, it was launched in London before Christmas. It depicts an imaginary but realistic scenario, where […]
Top City firms Herbert Smith and Clifford Chance led the legal work on the multi-billion pound international flotations of cable company Telewest and satellite television broadcaster BSkyB. The two deals could herald a series of major deals in the electronic media sector. Cable business competitors are already thought to be planning similar floats to Telewest, […]
The Marchioness of Milford Haven, is to seek injunctions banning further publication of a News of the World story linking her to James Hewitt. She is also seeking libel damages over the story which was printed alongside photographs of her and Hewitt under the heading ‘Hewitt is at it again’. The London firm of Harkavys […]
John Cooper We are moving into the era, of the personal or wasted costs order. For some time, solicitors have, in certain cases, been directed by the judge to pay the costs of a case or an adjournment out of their own pockets. Most recently, this ultimate sanction has been applied to the Bar and […]
Publisher Reed Elsevier has completed its $1.5 billion purchase of Lexis-Nexis from forest products company Mead Corporation in the US. The purchase also includes state legal publisher The Michie Company and legal information management software suppliers Jurisoft and Folio Corporation. Lexis-Nexis regards Reed Elsevier as a more strategic partner than its previous parent. The group […]
A video-conferencing system has been launched by US company Compression Labs Inc for use in classrooms and auditoriums for large group viewing.The company expects to have 200 sites worldwide by the beginning of 1995.
Accountants Ernst & Young has bought Tolley’s Tax-Link electronic database. The database contains six years’ of legislation for the major direct taxes, plus VAT, in addition to relevant statutory material.
Litigation is increasingly being used to solve technology disputes, says consultancy KPMG Peat Marwick. KPMG says the results of its survey into the way businesses install IT systems shows one fifth of those who have experienced problems with putting in a system have threatened litigation. The survey of 130 bodies, including companies and government organisations, […]