LINCOLN’s Inn barrister Bernard Cunningham and three others have been convicted of defrauding the Inland Revenue after the longest ever tax fraud trial. Cunningham, of Michael Jump’s chambers at 24 Old Buildings, was convicted on two counts of falsely misrepresenting or concealing the true nature of purchases and commissions paid by several companies to other […]
A NEW national structure of children’s hearings is likely to be among a raft of changes in Scottish legislation facing solicitors in the autumn. The national children’s reporter service is to be run by the Scottish Office and aims to replace the reporter services (similar to children’s court) currently provided by local government. The service […]
McKENNA’s new managing partner Robert Derry-Evans has unveiled plans to expand the firm at home and abroad and improve the running of the London office. The City firm is to expand its corporate and finance sections, build up the Warsaw office and encourage London staff at all levels to elect representatives to attend monthly consultation […]
A two-day intensive workshop aimed at partners and senior executives will be held by The Lawyer in December. Consultant Alan Hodgart, director of Hodgart Temporal & Co, will address the workshop on new approaches to partnership management, and discuss ways to maximise competitive advantage. For further details contact Centaur Conferences on 071 434 3711.
I am writing to correct the article that appeared in the 18 July issue of The Lawyer, ‘Malaysia orders probe into UK Law courses’, which misrepresents the current situation regarding UK law degrees offered to Malaysian students. What the article describes as a ‘probe’ is in fact a survey being undertaken into all UK law […]
When is the battle for human rights ever going to end? You might think that in South Africa the organisations which laboured long for the days of freedom could now pause to draw breath. But for bodies, such as the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), which played an honourable part as a law centre in the […]
Anne Marie Fergusson, of St John, Jersey, has launched High Court action against solicitor Andrew Collins, of Northamptonshire, a partner in London-based Walker Martineau seeking return of money she claims she loaned him under undue influence. She claims that between 1988 and 1993 she relied upon the defendant for legal advice in relation to her […]
A meeting to discuss the impact in practice of the European Convention on Human Rights will be held in the Law Society Hall next month. Piers Gardner, the director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, will discuss the range and variety of complaints which can be made to the commission and the […]
THAMES Valley firm Pitmans is having to rebuild its intellectual property department for the second time this year after losing its head of department after just two months. Former Pitmans partner John Linneker has returned to Taylor Joynson Garrett where he will take over from Isabel Davies who is now heading the IP department at […]
I wanted to practise family law because it has an extra dimension – dealing with people and people’s lives. It is a great privilege to be travelling along people’s lives with them, but you have to take the rough with the smooth, and acknowledge that not everybody loves you. The interesting work begins when you […]
CLAIMS by women barristers that the tax man has struck a “no questions asked” deal giving them a 10 per cent tax allowance on their nannies’ wages has been denied by the Inland Revenue. The disagreement comes from a report in the Bar’s newsletter about talks between the Bloomsbury tax office and the Association of […]
FORTY per cent of family law practitioners have not signed up as members of the Solicitors’ Family Law Association (SFLA), despite its role as the professional body for matrimonial lawyers. But SFLA chair Jane Simpson, a partner with Manches & Co, says of the findings of The Lawyer survey: “It is extremely encouraging that in […]