SALARIES for law librarians are outstripping the national average, a new survey reveals. Pay has gone up by 10 per cent over the last two years, according to research carried out for the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (Biall). But the inflation-busting settlements have not been matched by a significant increase in bonus […]
Lupton Fawcett’s senior partner Anthony Cumming has been appointed chair of the North Eastern legal aid area committee. Cumming, who is a personal injury specialist at the firm’s Leeds office, says: “It is an honour to be entrusted with the responsibility.”
THE SOLICITORS Compensation Fund could face a string of crippling multi-million pound claims arising from the alleged activities of one sole practitioner. A claim for u2.25 million and another for nearly u1 million have already landed at the door of the Law Society and it is feared that others may be waiting in the wings. […]
Bolton firms Fieldings and Porter Hope & Knipe will merge on 1 May. The new firm will practice under the name of Fieldings Porter. The practice will operate from Fieldings’ existing offices in Silverwell House, as well as premises in Blackburn, Westhoughton and Astley Bridge. Fieldings Porter will consist of 12 partners and 20 fee […]
Essex and London based law firm Kenneth Elliott & Rowe has set up a transport law department. According to the firm the new department will be capable of offering advice on all aspects of transport law. The department will be headed by partner Adam Carr and transport law specialist Jim Duckworth will act as a […]
ENVIRONMENTAL law specialists at Stephenson Harwood have won a government contract to survey planning legislation affecting waste- burning power stations. The firm’s environmental law group, headed by partner David Cuckson, won a competitive tender to get the work from the Department of Trade and Industry’s Energy Support Unit. His team of four environmental law specialists […]
WESTMINSTER City Council’s policy of selling off housing stock was “judge-proof” after it was given the go-ahead by Jeremy Sullivan QC, the inquiry heard on its final day. Anthony Scrivener QC, acting for former council leader Dame Shirley Porter, said the District Auditor John Magill had been wrong to declare the scheme unlawful. Scrivener, who […]
LINKS between lawyers in Britain and the Middle East are expected to improve as a result of an agreement of friendship signed by the two countries last week. The historic document, signed in Lebanon by the Law Society, the Beirut Bar Association and the British Middle East Law Council (BMELC), follows a cross-border conference held […]
THE SOLE Practitioners Group has set up four new committees to help focus its activities. The constitutional and administration committee will deal with issues relating to the running of the group, while the practice standards committee will give advice and assistance on issues such as franchising. A business and legal practice committee will have a […]
A report containing the Law Commission’s recommendations for the reform of the year and a day rule will be released on 22 February. The rule currently states that a person cannot be convicted of a range of offences including murder and manslaughter if there is a delay of more than a year and a day […]
The theme of the sixth County Court Users Association annual conference will be ‘They are your Courts – Use Them or Lose Them’. The event, being staged in Birmingham on 10-11 May, will be chaired by Jeremy Sutcliffe of Eversheds Hepworth & Chadwick. Michael Heubner, chief executive of the new court service agency, will address […]
Former McKenna & Co solicitor Eileen Herlihy has settled her unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination claims against her old firm out of court. The case was listed to be heard at the Whittington House tribunal court in London last week, but the two parties came to an agreement shortly before it was due to begin. […]