Premier council
Harrogate Borough Council has installed QNIX Premier from software company Sanderson GA. The system comprises debt recovery modules, time recording, practice accounts and case management modules.
Word perfect speech
Canadian speech recognition company Kolvox Communications has signed a “letter of intent” with WordPerfect to develop speech recognition applications. They will run on key WordPerfect software products and are for both businesses and home computers.
IBM plans seminars
IBM is holding seminars around the country to introduce lawyers to its personal dictation voice recognition software. Events are planned in London (21 October; 23 and 29 November; 13 December); Manchester (24 October); Bristol (15 November) and Edinburgh (25 November). For a full list of locations and further details contact Elaine Richards on 071 202 […]
Claire Ferguson considers insurers' liability for wasted costs
Claire Ferguson There was a question in a recent professional negligence case of whether the defen- dant’s professional indemnity insurers might be liable for costs incurred by the plaintiffs, which were argued to have been wasted by the insurers’ unreasonable act. If successful (the point has yet to be determined by the court) the insurers’ […]
Change of identity
The Sole Practitioners’ Accounting system from Wheatsheaf professional systems has had a change of identity. The system will now be called Kestrel Accounts and the company has been renamed Kestrel Software.
Litigation Writs 18/10/94
Student nurse, Sally Boug-hey of Wareham, Dorset, who was forced to give up her nursing career after receiving back injuries when a patient she was lifting fell on top of her, has launched a u50,000 High Court compensation claim against Bristol and District Health Authority and United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust. The writ accuses the […]
TCS tries its hand at a PMS
Simon rogers reports Legal systems supplier Total Computer Systems (TCS) has developed a new package for law firm practice management. The Windows-based package is unusual because TCS is best known for its work with local government legal departments on its Psion-based time recording system. It also relies heavily on the Lotus Notes database. The system, […]
Australian accountants' legal foray
Mary Heaney
Can we have our money back?
Roger Pearson
That old black magic
I agree with Bibi Berki’s comments in “The Black Art of Advertising” (The Lawyer, 20 September) that lawyers have become less resistant to marketing, but disagree that the freedom to advertise is still considered a novelty. In my experience, City and regional law firms have a good understanding of the role of advertising in all […]
Social policy vs free market
I refer to a recent Litigator’s View (The Lawyer, 16 June). Jonathan Moore of Hammond Suddards suggests that the case brought by Tommy Hilfiger against Tesco relates to exhaustion of trade mark rights, a general issue which was tackled on 16 July when the European Court of Justice gave judgment in the Silhouette case. We […]
The Lawyer Inquiry: Mark Stephens
MBA courses for lawyers are the shape of things to come, says Simon Rogers. Simon Rogers is assistant editor of The Big Issue. Imagine sole practitioners sitting down with the managing partners of huge city firms, each learning something from the other. This is the future of legal education, if the students who have just […]