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Development expert for Hammonds
LEEDS-BASED Hammond Suddards has appointed a development specialist from City firm Wilde Sapte to act as director of development. Robert Lee, who has worked as a visiting Professor of Law in Australia, headed research at Wilde Sapte for six years. His new role will unite the practice development and marketing side of Hammonds with professional […]
Northern firms raise profile by office moves
TWO leading provincial firms are moving to new premises in high-profile office developments to be built in Manchester and Sheffield. Leading Manchester firm Addleshaw Sons & Latham has, together with accountancy firms Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse, signed up for the city’s biggest office development for 30 years. Construction work on the u58 million […]
Ward to head Shrewsbury planning department
FORMER Dibb Lupton Broomhead lawyer Geoff Ward has been appointed as principal solicitor with Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council. Ward, who finished work in Dibbs’ planning department in October, took up the post at the end of last month. Articled with West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council he worked in authorities in Kirklees and Manchester before […]
Death and affordable taxes
Inheritance tax has spiralled during the past 10 years. But many people are paying too much, reports John Browne Martin Chuzzlewit is on our screens. A serial that is built around inheritance and a will. It has an audience of one million adults watching the television adaptation each week. Of these, 70 per cent do […]
Firm takes action over sleaze story
PARTNERS at Kent-based Stantons were “absolutely horrified” to see their firm featured in in a story about a “sleazy solicitor running a sex agency and selling drugs”. The story in the News of the World alleged that a lawyer called Stephen Harvey worked for Stantons and was involved in prostitution and drugs. It carried a […]
Litigation Recent Decisions 13/12/94
Office Fair Trading: appeal Employer’s vicarious liability for employee’s conduct In Re Supply of Ready Mixed Concrete (No.2): sub nom: Director General of Fair Trading v Pioneer Concrete (UK) (1994) (HL 24/11/94) (Lords Jauncey, Templeman, Mustill, Slynn and Nolan) Summary: Employer is still liable for contempt by employee who acts notwithstanding a clear prohibition against […]
Fear The Stranger David Johnston and Hector Clark Mainstream Publishing u6.99
This is primarily the story of a murder hunt that lasted from 1983 until the conviction of Robert Black in 1994. During that time three children, Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper had died. The search was led by the author, former Deputy Chief Constable of the Lothian Police Force, Hector Clark. Upon the […]
MPs take on Daily Express
MPs Bernard Jenkin, John Townend, and Iain Smith are preparing for a High Court libel fight with the Daily Express over a story on 9 November headlined ‘Twelve angry men out to get Major’. The three are seeking damages and injunctions preventing the further publication of the words of which they complain.
Litigation Writs 13/12/94
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Health Authority is being sued for negligence over a patient who died from hepatitis. Richard Smith died on 7 March last year after contracting hepatitis from Factor V111 concentrate. The writ was issued by his personal representative, Brenda Smith. Writ issued by Bolitho Way, Southsea, Hampshire. S2473 Royal biographer Lady […]
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Doing the right thing
I am aware that the legal profession is seriously affected by the current recession and that many students who have passed the LSF or LPC have been unable to secure training contracts. The situation is even grimmer if you are a black woman – like myself. Sometimes firms ask you to attach a passport-sized photo […]
In brief: Quinn joins Mischon de Reya
Lawyers for Persons with a Learning Disability chair Anthony Quinn has become a consultant with London commercial firm Mischon de Reya. And Mischons’ head of private client work Christopher Allen has been signed as a consultant to Anthony Quinn & Co which recently moved to Mischons’ Southampton Row address. “Anthony Quinn has extensive experience in […]