Maya Mounayer US firm Elite Data Processing has won the contract to supply City firm Rowe & Maw with a new billing system. Project “Trident”, using software from Elite, will replace the current Wang system by March 1995. The Trident plan incorporates a relational database accounting system with a PC network-based front office suite of […]
The Financial Times has launched three new business files for its FT Profile online database. EIU Geographic offers all the country and regional intelligence published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Money Management provides monthly international coverage and detailed analyses of financial products for professional advisers. Business & Finance provides weekly coverage of all aspects of […]
Simon Rogers At least one top City firm is known to be “seriously looking” at a new system from Wang following the troubled company’s efforts to relaunch itself in the UK’s legal market. Wang UK has also signed a deal with supplier Dart Legal Systems to market its Australian ALS practice management system. Although the […]
Roger Pearson
Urologist Solomon Goldenberg will face High Court action where he is being sued by a Kent couple over a failed vasectomy operation at the Raleigh Nursing Home in London. Martyn and Karen Newell complain that after Mr Newell underwent a vasectomy in the 1980s Mrs Newell became pregnant. She gave birth to a son in […]
Retail giants, Tesco, which lost an Appeal Court battle in May to develop a superstore at Witney is to fight on. The company has been given leave by the House of Lords to challenge an Appeal Court decision. This was that a High Court judge who gave the green-light for plans to develop a superstore […]
Legal software supplier Cognito Software Ltd has been bought by Microvitec plc. Cognito joins accountancy software supplier CSM Ltd as part of Microvitec’s vertical market software strategy. The new trust and probate accounting software, Custodiens, will be the first product to benefit from the relationship. CSM head Peter Mart says: “Microvitec is committed to Cognito […]
Roger Pearson
A libel hearing is imminent between the Outward Bound Trust Ltd and Mirror Group Newspapers. It follows a Daily Mirror story on 23 March last year relating to the canoeing tragedy at Lyme Regis, Dorset, in which four teenagers died and others ended up in hospital. The article referred to the party as having been […]
Blom-Cooper: disclosure S.62 Housing Act 1985 R v Poole Borough Council, Ex Parte Cooper (1994) (QBD 03.10.94.) (Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC) Summary: Homeless housing applicant is entitled to disclosure of information obtained by a housing authority in its inquiries on whether the applicant is intentionally homeless. Application for judicial review of council finding that applicant […]
Jon Vivian is a property law partner at City firm McKenna & Co. Aged 40 he was born, and still lives, in Sussex. What was your first job? Labouring long and hard in a saw mill. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? Negligible. Some things never change. What would you have done […]
The joint venture of Development Securities and Bryant Properties, BDS Properties, was advised by Evershed Wells & Hind has pre-let its first development at the Birmingham International Park to Rover Group, advised by Wragge & Co, and completed the forward sale with British Rail Pension Funds, advised by Berwin Leighton.