THE ROLE of children in the criminal justice system will provide the focus for the biennial conference of the International Bar Association’s section on general practice. The conference, to be held in Edinburgh from 10 to 13 June, is on the theme of ‘Grim tales: children in crime’. Children as victims, offenders and witnesses are […]
TWO London-based firms of solicitors have announced the appointment of new senior partners. Lyddon Simon takes over the helm at Westminster practice Radcliffes & Co, while City-based Field Fisher Waterhouse has appointed Paul Honigmann. Simon was educated in South Africa, but came to the UK more than 30 years ago and joined Radcliffes in 1967. […]
RADICAL plans by US lawyers in Nevada to introduce mandatory pro bono for the State Bar have been torpedoed by strong resistance from a “vocal minority” of attorneys. The State Bar of Nevada had hoped the five-judge State Supreme Court would rule this month in favour of a scheme requiring attorneys to give 20 hours […]
A major pensions civil trial involving fraud allegations and dubbed a “mini Maxwell” by lawyers, started in the High Court last week. Due to last up to 10 weeks, it has already cost around £5 million in lawyers’ fees with another £2 million in trial costs expected on top of that. The lawyer-intensive trial centres […]
Standard Life, advised by Herbert Smith, has acquired the freehold of a new 380,000sq ft distribution warehouse in a £21.9m deal at Pipps Hill Basildon being developed for Argos by Gazeley, advised by McGuinness Finch in Leeds.
Reading property company Dares Estates was advised by Halliwell Landau on a rights issue, a major group reorganisation, a share capital reconstruction and group borrowing arrangements, as well as the acquisition of a number of properties and two companies, for a total of £23m.
Contract interpretation John Mowlem & Co v Eagle Star Insurance Company & Ors (1995). (CA (Nourse LJ, Hirst LJ and Sir Ralph Gibson) 20/3/95) Summary: The use of ‘or’ in a building contract conjunctively and not disjunctively. Plaintiffs’ appeal by John Mowlem & Co against the Official Referee’s rulings on two questions on the construction […]
John Dickey The sanctified surroundings of a deconsecrated church and rectory is an unusual location to find any law firm or lawyer, particularly a London-based litigation partner for one of the leading New York firms. John Dickey’s career has taken him from Missouri, where both his father and grandfather were trial lawyers, to Oxford as […]
John Malpas Silk round bypasses Liverpool chambers THE TRADITIONAL rivalry between Manchester and Liverpool has spilled over into the silk round. Liverpool was a notable exception in a generally good year for barristers outside London. Nineteen QCs were awarded to tenants in regional sets compared to 15 last year. Six Manchester barristers were successful. Senior […]
As technology becomes a more pervasive part of the US lawyer’s life, incoming American Bar Association president Roberta Cooper Ramo is challenging the legal community to better understand its benefits. In her recent address to the American Bar Association section of Law Practice Techshow in Chicago, Ramo challenged US lawyers to take the lead with […]
John Malpas A SHARP decline in applications for silk has prompted speculation that a shortage of work for QCs is preventing successful juniors from putting their names forward. But opinion is divided on the causes of the drop in QC hopefuls which has brought a historic year-on-year increase in applications to an abrupt halt. Some […]