Welcoming in the technology revolution
Vicky Edwards is marketing manager at Jeffrey Green
Women try to get clerks 'on their side'
FREEMASONRY among clerks is one controversial issue likely to be aired at a talk for women barristers this week. ‘Getting your clerk on your side’ is the first of two seminars on how to succeed at the Bar organised by the Association of Women Barristers. All three speakers at the seminar are women practice managers […]
Litigation Writs 28/02/95
A boy whose mother died after falling from a hospital window is suing the London health authority controlling the hospital. Joolyon Gibbs, who sues through his grandmother Cherry Cummings, has issued a writ claiming damages from Rohn and Haas, of Masons Avenue, Croydon, and Camberwell Health Authority, of King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE3. […]
Change of style
Lively times are predicted for the pensions scene. The new pensions ombudsman Julian Farrand QC made this quite clear when talking to the Association of Pensions Lawyers last week. In a matter of months, he has given 50 determinations, compared with his predecessor’s 160 over a period of years. And the style will be different. […]
Food for thought
Just as the Northern Ireland framework document is supposedly not a blueprint, Labour’s ‘Access to justice’ consultation paper is labelled ‘not a statement of party policy’. It is a rummage through the legal system and ‘you tell us what should be on the shopping list’ approach. Legal issues at all levels are on the political […]
The Lawyer Inquiry: Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer QC was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1947. Based at 1 Paper Buildings in London, he is the founder of Compas, a clearing house scheme for pupils which is due to start this autumn. He lives in Amersham in Buckinghamshire. What was your first job? Labourer on a building site. What was your first […]
Football Competition
The Lawyer is pleased to announce the 1995 Legal National Five-a-Side football tournament in conjunction with Arsenal Football Club. The competition is open to all members of the legal profession and those associated with it. So law firms, barristers’ chambers, in-house legal departments and courthouse staff are invited to field teams. The event will kick […]
In by the back door
Davies Arnold Cooper has issued a warning bulletin to all its clients about the potential legal problems that can arise from using email. Practitioners in the intellectual property department at the firm said that if used appropriately email is a quick and efficient way of communicating. However, they warned if it is used carelessly it […]
Property
Prior, advised by the Brough Skerrett Law Partnership, has through its subsidiary Touquet Properties, acquired a portfolio of six properties for over u5m from Pearl Assurance, advised by its in-house legal department.
House of Lords cases
Judgment is pending in the House of Lords for the case of Regina v H which will focus on contaminated evidence and the admissibility of evidence in sex cases. Newspaper law is also to be thrown under the House of Lords spotlight in the case of Charleston and another v News Group Newspapers and another. […]
Corporate
Sturge Holdings, advised by Norton Rose, has introduced a new holding company Ockham Holdings, to be effected by means of a scheme of arrangement under S.425 of the Companies Act 1985. Financial adviser Samuel Montagu was advised by Herbert Smith.
Barristers in death row case
John Malpas reports THE FATE of two Texan prisoners on death row may hinge on last minute pleas drawn up by two UK barristers for their sentences to be commuted. Bar Human Rights Committee members Philip Sapsford QC and David Marshall were last week drawing up amicus curiaes briefs on behalf of Calvin Burdine and […]