North Yorkshire firm Harrowell Shaftoe has announced plans to expand to a new site outside York. The move is designed to develop the firm’s commercial law service and provide clients with easier access and parking. The firm already has two offices in the city. Senior partner, John Yeomans, says: “This development is a major investment […]
THE Bar Council could face a demand from barristers for direct access by the public, partnership between the two arms of the profession and higher court advocacy rights for the employed Bar, if resolutions are passed at its annual general meeting next month. The Bar Council has already rejected wider direct access. The partnership question […]
THE TURN-OUT for the Law Society conference was down on last year, despite attempts to attract extra delegates by holding the event in the capital. But organisers claim a success because of the record number of paying delegates. About 350 people paid to attend this year, compared with 290 for last year’s three-day event in […]
THE first barristers’ chambers in Wiltshire opened for business last week. Temple Chambers in Swindon is a “joint venture” between Guildhall chambers of Bristol and Pump Court chambers of London and Winchester. The new chambers can draw on the expertise of 74 barristers, including eight QCs, in a wide range of expertise which only excludes […]
THE EUROPEAN Commission has promised to draw up a draft rights of establishment directive by the end of November. The news has been welcomed, but there are suspicions that the promise will not be kept because it was made under intense pressure from the European Parliament. MEPs had written repeatedly to the commission to ask […]
FIVE London law firms have formed a consortium with Churchill College, Cambridge, in a joint venture designed to provide teaching for the new Professional Skills Course. The consortium, which includes Penningtons, Clyde & Co, Davies Arnold Cooper, Frere Cholmely Bischoff and Sinclair Roche & Temperley, was validated by the Law Society to run course modules […]
Leeds firm Shulmans has promoted three new department heads. Andrew Bradley becomes head of the company and commercial department, Jonathan Cairns head of litigation and disputes and Simon Jackson head of property and development. All three have been made partners in the firm within the past five years. The moves signify the end of a […]
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PERSONAL injury lawyers acting for plaintiffs are benefiting from the “rising tide of personal injury claims”, by earning up to three quarters of the legal costs paid out yearly by the insurance industry, says a defendants’ lawyer. Martin Bruffell, personal injury partner at London firm Berrymans, speaking to delegates at the Chartered Insurance Institute conference, […]
LONDON solicitor Gerald Shamash has been involved in “brainstorming” sessions aimed at establishing an international body to act as a “consultant broker” to emerging democracies. Shamash, an electoral law expert and partner at Steel & Shamash, is a member of one of the specialist “issue groups” which met in Sweden last month to formulate guidelines […]
The PROPORTION of discrete financial services business provided by solicitors remains dwarfed by that of other main providers, say the latest industry figures. Solicitors provided only four per cent of services nationally, compared with 11 per cent from accountants and a massive 31 per cent from independent financial advisers (IFAs), says industry body IFA Promotion. […]
Barrister Roy Light has been appointed Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Light, who practises on the South Western Circuit, is based at the city’s St John’s Chambers. He is an acknowledged authority on several aspects of the criminal justice system including alcohol-related crime, car crime and the […]