Flotations
Ennemix was advised by Gouldens in connection with its u11.5m listing on the London Stock Exchange.
OXFORD, BEDS & BUCKS
Oxfordshire’s lawyers suffer from the proximity of Reading, the large Northampton and Midlands firms and even Birmingham practices. Perhaps as a result, local firms have created a market which appears separate to the rest of the region. “Oxford is a bit of an island unto itself,” says one Reading lawyer. The largest Oxford firm is […]
Figures show legal aid cuts
THE LORD Chancellor has been accused of breaking promises after budget figures revealed cuts in planned legal aid expenditure. Cash set aside for the next two years has been trimmed back by about five per cent. The budget statistics also reveal a u70 million underspend for 1993-94 which legal aid lawyers say is due to […]
Nessie copyright battle
The Loch Ness monster looks set to surface at the High Court at the centre of a copyright row. News Group Newspapers faces action for alleged infringement of copyright in a model of the monster made for the film ‘Loch Ness’. An injunction is sought by Working Title, Loch Ness Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment Productions […]
New faces set to take up position at Bar Council
Linda Tsang THREE QCs, Allan Levy, David Steer and Bruce Houlder, have been elected to the Bar Council and will take office in January. David Steer QC is joint head of chambers at The Corn Exchange, Liverpool, and Bruce Houlder QC, of 6 King’s Bench Walk, acted for the CPS in the Blakelock case. Levy […]
Microsoft on the case for legal market
Simon Rogers reports US giant Microsoft is to target the UK legal market. Next year a number of products, as yet unannounced, will be launched. They have been designed specifically for UK lawyers, rather than adapted from US software. The move is significant as it is the first time a worldwide IT supplier has targeted […]
Litigation Writs 06/12/94
Specialist pig vet Graham Wheeler, of Wells, Somerset, is to seek libel damages over stories which appeared in the News of the World and the Solihull Evening Mail. Wheeler, who specialises in intensive livestock rearing, has issued a High Court libel writ against author Jennifer Morgan following the News of the World story on 9 […]
John Smith replays recent football decisions
John Smith is a partner in Davies Arnold Cooper. The article in The Lawyer 1 November, ‘A sporting chance of success’, argued that the outcome of the O’Neill v Fashanu case had opened the door to sports injury claims and that the settlement was a good one from John O’Neill’s point of view. I acted […]
Treading carefully
Does risk management have any relevance to the technology industry or to other industries’ dealings with it? I believe it does. Where an industry has established a regular pattern of behaviour – where the legal problems which face that industry are well-known – it is reasonable to assume that people working in that industry have […]
BBC programme seeks HDC lawyers
The BBC’s investigative current affairs programme Here and Now is on the look-out for solicitors with clients interested in the activities of the Health Development Club (HDC). Assistant producer Sally Webb says: “We know there has definitely been one solicitor, but there could turn out to be lots.” She can be contacted at the BBC […]
No longer a game of chance
Mary Heaney reports on the growth of risk management. Is it proactive lawyering or another way of attracting client cash? Two years ago, Bevan Ashford entered uncharted territory for most law firms – it entered into a joint venture with international risk management consultancy Willis Corroon. The resultant company, QRM Healthcare, advises on all aspects […]
Clearing up the Deacons aftermath
The reverberations from the shocking collapse of Deacon Goldrein Green will sound a long time. Leaving aside the financial and human suffering, the lessons have more than a local significance. There will be a perverse pleasure on the part of some that a firm regarded as a model by the authorities was shown to have […]