LORD Woolf’s ideas for reform of the justice system came in for criticism at the Legal Action Group conference. Cyril Glasser, UCL visiting professor, questioned whether proposals on timetabling would have the desired effect. He also cast doubt on the effectiveness of one-off review bodies, calling instead for a system of on-going reform. But Glasser, […]
Century Life, advised by The Brough Skerrett Law Partnership, has bought its headquarters building at 5 Old Bailey, London EC4 for over u8m from Norwich Union, advised by its in-house legal team.
FIRMS struggling to comply with EU directives on health and safety – whereby they have to pay for their employees’ eye tests – are being targeted by a new service. Supplier Screen Vision and City University have developed a software package which can perform an eye test at the user’s premises. Carried out by a […]
Simon Rogers A LONDON firm has used computer technology in the courtroom to reduce costs by over u40,000. The firm acting in Bankers Trust & Others v Arthur Andersen and G Capital v Bankers Trust & Others – consolidated cases relating to management buy-outs – used UK imaging and transcription technology to store thousands of […]
Roger Pearson
Musicians have for many years realised the creative potential of computers and used them to produce their compositions. Anyone who has ever manipulated the sound envelope of a self-created sound on their home computer will realise what can be achieved in the hands of a professional musician. Musicians can now buy software packages that allow […]
Former Nottingham Labour MP, Jack Dunnett is being sued by the wife of a former Tory MP following a failed property deal. Dunnett, a former solicitor, faces a claim for more than u1 million by Lady Lizzie-Anne Hastings. She says she lost the money after giving financial guarantees for a complex scheme involving Dunnett. In […]
Bibi Berki BARRISTERS are to see a 12 per cent across-the-board increase in subscriptions to the Bar Council from next January. But the Bar has pledged to remember the “poorest in our profession” by looking again at rates for hard-up junior members. Subscriptions were last increased in 1992, when they rose by 15 per cent. […]
KENT practice Kingsford, Flower & Pain is planning to implement a u92,000 system from Digital subsidiary Kienzle Systems. Kienzle’s Arista package will replace a set up from Ushers, used at the practice since 1985. The firm was one of the first in England to buy a package from Edinburgh-based Ushers and helped develop its conveyancing […]
Subject to contract and claim for restitution Docklands: dispute over development expenditure Regalian Properties Plc & Ors v London Dockland Development Corporation (1994) (Ch.D 02/11/94) (Rattee J) Summary: Claim for restitution by development of expenditure on ‘subject to contract’ negotiations. Claim by R, a property development company, for the recovery of expenditure incurred as a […]
BARRISTER John Taylor is to present a four-part BBC1 series on consumer law next March. The programme, called John Taylor’s Casebook, will examine the law and the rights of the consumer, using case studies and illustrations. “Legal aid is becoming more difficult to obtain and yet people are more aware of their rights, just as […]
Byron and Byron, manufacturer of curtain poles, has obtained an interlocutory injunction preventing Harrison Drape infringing copyright in design of one of its curtain poles. The injunction prevented Harrison Drape exhibiting its version of the pole at the Home Interiors Show at London’s Earls Court. Simon Clark of Davenport Lyons says a full hearing is […]