AN ALCOHOLIC barrister is calling on the Bar Council to take action to deal with the increasing number of professionals addicted to drink. Her call is backed by a man who was forced to leave the profession through drink, and a barrister’s clerk. All three wish to remain anonymous. She says: “The Bar is very […]
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HIGH-profile sports lawyer Mel Stein is heading for America next month where he will appear as a defendant in a major fraud trial. Stein, a former partner at London firm Finers, was implicated in the case of one of his former clients. Cuban businessman Carlos Miro was jailed for almost nine years after the collapse […]
Nicole Maley MEDIUM-SIZED regional practices are expected to be the big winners in the CCT game, with low overheads and smaller staff numbers enabling them to undercut larger firms in the bidding price war. A straw poll of local authority figures shows they believe the type of work likely to be put on the market […]
Mosaic Investments was advised by Travers Smith Braithwaite regarding the u12m flotation of its subsidiary Copyright Promotions Group
JBA Holdings was advised by Dibb Lupton Broomhead on its recent flotation capitalising the computer software company at u53m; the sponsor
Commercial property holding group CLS Holdings was advised by Gouldens in its u48m flotation by way of a placing and intermediaries offer sponsored jointly by UBS and Apax Partners & Co Corporate Finance
South African group Liberty Life used Linklaters & Paines as its English advisers on the first ever global offering of convertible bonds by a South African company. The offering amounted to $300m.
SWEEPING rule changes allowing barristers to reject low-paying legal aid work and requirements to compensate clients are likely to be announced this week in the Bar’s standards review body report. The package of recommendations, ranging from training and discipline through to terms of business and an overhaul of the cab rank rule, is expected to […]
Although the commercial agents regulations have only been in force since earlier this year, agents are already enforcing their new rights. A survey by City-based Fox Williams of 300 businesses using 3,400 agents found 11 per cent of those using agents faced a demand for commission before the principal has been paid by the customer. […]
A study of the use and effect of emergency provisions in Ulster will make fascinating reading for lawyers and civil libertarians. The most interesting are the Diplock courts and suspended right to silence. The late Lord Diplock’s commission led to the non-jury Diplock court in the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973, in response to […]
Lawyers have been getting on their bikes, switching to the bus and even taking to the water to beat the rail strike. Meanwhile, lawyers in the Yorkshire and London offices of Dibb Lupton Broomhead have been taking things easy. The firm has recently unveiled a video conference facility which allows partners and clients to link […]