Financial services group Allied Dunbar begins a series of introductory-level financial services training courses for solicitors next month, as part of a renewed marketing drive into the professional market. To mark the launch of the programme, Allied Dunbar is offering six free places on the opening course module to The Lawyer readers on a first-come-first-served […]
BESTSELLING barrister Michael Fordham is leaving commercial chambers at 3 Gray’s Inn Place for 2 Hare Court, a set specialising in both public and commercial law. Fordham, author of the ‘Judicial Review Handbook’, has taught administrative law at Hertford College, Oxford, since completing his pupillage four years ago. “I’m not turning my back on commercial […]
This edition provides one of the best insights into modern thinking about some of the most important aspects of successful management. In all the areas that are covered, plausible and workable solutions are debated leaving the reader with a variety of options to pursue. One of the criticisms of other guides to successful management is […]
Simon Rogers reports City firm Lovell White Durrant is to spend some u350,000 on an accounts package from US-based company Elite Data Processing. The firm will also be taking on another US package – Carpe Diem time tracking and time entry software from Dallas-based company Prosoft. Lovells will be integrating the two systems, which will […]
Roger Pearson looks ahead A High Court action which questions the practices of traveller’s cheque companies when dealing with refund claims is scheduled to reach the High Court early next year. Although some cheque companies stress the value of instant refunds if cheques are lost or stolen abroad, solicitor Jonathan Armstrong, of Cleveland-based Smith & […]
Ronnie Knight is to stand trial at the Old Bailey in January for alleged involvement in a u7 million Security Express robbery in the 1980s.
There is an obvious difference between the roles of counsellor and lawyer. The counsellor encourages the client to find his own solutions. The lawyer must find the solutions for the client. This book is principally about what counselling should achieve. One learns swiftly that problems can hardly be resolved unless they are first identified. One […]
Roger Pearson reports on two decisions in the emotive area of ceasing to treat coma victims When the courts finally agreed that Hillsborough victim Tony Bland should be allowed to drift from the persistent vegetative state (PVS) in which tube feeding was keeping him, there was concern that the decision would open a floodgate of […]
MERSEYSIDE QC Bill Braithwaite is the first barrister in the country to get a top quality standard. Braithwaite, of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool, has been registered to the BS EN ISO 900 standard, formerly known as BS 5750. “It’s taken 18 months to reach the necessary standard required by the British Standards Institute but it’s […]
Lynne Curry talks to Lord Denning’s biographer about her work, and about the declining genre of legal biography Iris Freeman had heard much of Lord Denning when she was newly married. Her husband, an ambitious young lawyer who founded his own commercial practice in Fetter Lane, quite often referred to non-conformist judgments in the Court […]
THE MAN responsible for the Department of Health’s overhaul of London’s hospitals is to take over the Legal Aid Board. Sir Tim Chessells, chair of the London Implementation Group, succeeds John Pitts who has led the group since it was set up six years ago. Chessells was responsible for implementing the recommendations of the Tomlinson […]
Birmingham-based law firm Pinsent & Co has appointed former Coopers & Lybrand business, planning and development manager Meirion Jones as its new head of marketing. Pinsents senior partner Julian Tonks says: “Law practices are facing similar opportunities to accountancy firms in terms of competitiveness. Meirion’s experience in this field is an important asset to the […]