A COMPANY describing itself as an outdoor clerk locum service is being established in London. Terrier & Co is offering what it regards as a new service of precedent case research and listing, covering a minimum period of 10 years. There is a fixed fee of u25 for each search. Martin Osment of the firm […]
The Court of Appeal has ruled on the rights of health authorities to force feed patients who refuse food and drink. Lords Justices Neill, Hoffmann and Henry upheld the Family Division ruling of Justice Thorpe allowing Croydon Health Authority to force feed a woman in its care.
Former DJ Freeman partner Godfrey Bruce-Radcliffe has joined City firm Hobson Audley as partner and head of property. He will be responsible for the continuing development of Hobson Audley’s industrial and commercial property practice. At DJ Freeman he was one of the founders of the firm’s development partnership consultancy, which provided expertise on property development […]
LAWYERS at a conference on judicial review voiced concerns that a Law Commission proposal may make it tougher for people to obtain leave. Chair of the commission Sir Henry Brooke says this had never been the commission’s intention but he was happy to pass on concerns to the Government. He told the conference, jointly hosted […]
A STEERING committee of three law firms, set up for victims of bad pensions transfer and opt out advice, is on the verge of launching legal action against the insurance industry. The committee, which meets for the first time this week, will also receive instructions from the GMB trade union, a number of whose 820,743 […]
A legal recruitment agency has been the first to offer job-seekers a chance at an electronic application. ZMB Recruitment consultancy has a post-box on the electronic superhighway, the Internet. Applicants will be able to respond to job advertisements by sending their CV and letter to a mailbox address on the bottom of the advert. The […]
Asda Property Holdings, advised by Brecher & Co and in Scotland by Archibald Campbell & Hardy WS, has acquired a portfolio of 28 properties in England and Scotland for u8.5m from Woolwich Building Society, advised by Church Adams Tatham & Co and in Scotland by Brechin Robb.
Southsea company Eco Euro is gearing up for a High Court battle with the Customs and Excise following the seizure of 11.5 million cigarettes. The company says the cigarettes, worth u227,000, were wrongly seized from a warehouse in Bristol, and despite requests, they have not been returned. They are to accuse the Customs and Excise […]
PROFESSOR Jack Beatson, newly-created Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at Cambridge University, has rejoined Essex Court Chambers after spending five years at the Law Commission. He will combine his academic duties with giving expert advice in chambers on commercial and public law matters, particularly on financial services regulation. “With ever increasing regulation in the […]
The burgeoning voice recognition market for lawyers has received another boost with the news that giant supplier IBM is launching a UK legal vocabulary. The IBM VoiceType dictation legal vocabulary will provide over 30,000 words tailored specifically for legal use. The package is a re-launching exercise – the product was previously called the IBM Personal […]
Adam Taylor is a litigator at Withers. Order 23 rl (1) (a) of the rules of the Supreme Court enables the court to order that a plaintiff resident abroad give security for the costs of the defendant where just to do so. A recent European Court of Justice decision reopens the issue of a possible […]
Nick Hilborne A LEADING QC is calling for urgent reform of the Brussels Convention on European Union jurisdictional disputes. Michael Briggs QC wants to end the “disgrace” of the current system where international litigants are forced to wait years for disputes to be settled, costing hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal fees. He also […]