CRIMINAL lawyers’ ability to advise their clients could be adversely affected by proposals to cut red tape for police officers. The proposals, which are due to be sent to the Government and senior law officers soon, come from a Government-appointed scrutiny committee. They are expected to be wide-ranging and to recommend the use of abbreviated […]
Merrivale Moore Commercial, advised by Frere Cholmeley Bischoff and Russell-Cooke Potter and Chapman, and Miller Samuel & Co in Scotland, has acquired a portfolio of 16 investment properties in England and Scotland from Sun Life, advised by Church Adams Tatham & Co and Carter Lemon and W&J Burness in Scotland.
WELSH solicitors will gain an insight into Europe next week when they visit Brussels to celebrate St David’s Day. Thirty lawyers will meet officials from the European Parliament and Commission and will see at first hand how the system works. The event has been staged by the Law Society and the Law Society of Scotland […]
Tim Miller FORMER local authority chief Basil Smith has switched to Bristol-based Veale Wasbrough to head the firm’s new local government practice. Smith’s move from Avon County Council to private practice is linked to the re-organisation of public services in the South West. Avon and the region’s six district councils are to be replaced with […]
A seminar to discuss the future of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau is being staged at the Law Society, Chancery Lane, at 3pm on 3 March. The event is being organised by Norwich practitioner Nicholas Oglethorpe. Anyone interested in attending should contact Oglethorpe through his firm Clapham Collinge, 35-37 Exchange St, Norwich, NR2 1EN. DX5212 Norwich.
THE LAW Society has come up with a new plan to clamp down on greedy lawyers who “factory farm” legal aid. Officials say that the Legal Aid Board’s (LAB) proposals to combat abuses of the Green Form system may miss their target. Instead, the society has come up with its own radical idea to curb […]
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 […]
NABARRO NATHANSON property specialist Susan McKenna is to head the firm’s northern practice. McKenna, who is already head of property for the firm’s northern offices, will be playing a major part in the expansion of its Sheffield operation. The firm is set to take up 40,000 square feet of office space in Sheffield’s Victoria Quays […]
Declan Moylan is partner in charge of marketing at Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran. He was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1950 and now lives in Dublin. What was your first job? Guide for tourist fishermen on Lough Conn, County Mayo. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? u40 a week from […]
The mood was somewhat downbeat at last week’s gathering of legal IT users at the ‘Information systems for lawyers’ conference. The concerns were about getting installations to work properly, rather than new and better systems. Concern about the market was the keynote of two legal IT suppliers, AIM and Ushers, which formally announced the Law […]
Worth Investment Trust, now Caledonia Media Communications, was advised by The Brough Skerrett Law Partnership in connection with the reverse takeover of Devanha Group, advised by Peterkins.
Mobile phones allow you to be in when you are out, and for most business people this is a real boon. Phones are now so cheap that they have lost the the 1980s yuppie image and are now everyday items. But the clichC of time being money cuts both ways. A phone may be cheap […]