THE COLLEGE of Law has been sidelined at a crucial stage in the Bar Council’s move to end the Inns of Court School of Law’s monopoly by farming out training to other institutions. The college is absent from a list of eight institutions drawn up by the Bar. These institutions, according to the Bar, have […]
Wates City of London Properties was advised by Norton Rose on its 2 for 7 rights issue to raise u31m net.
Delta was advised by Theodore Goddard in its $75m private placement of debt with US institutional holders.
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A firm of Birmingham estate agents which fell victim to an alleged cheque fraud when one of its bookkeepers made out cheques for hundreds of thousands of pounds to herself, are suing Barclays Bank and the Midland Bank claiming they should never have honoured the forgeries. Steven Champion & Slater of Birmingham, seek repayment of […]
The new data protection registrar has taken up her post. Elizabeth France’s main priority will be deciding whether to lobby for changes to the 1984 Data Protection Act or to wait for the EC draft directive on data protection, now under review, but not expected to be adopted in the UK until 1997. The office […]
Dutch lawyer Wilma Lloyd-Schutt has left Turner Kenneth Brown to join Howes Percival. A high-profile Dutch advocate and English solicitor, she is known for her talks on EU law and trade with Holland. Lloyd-Schutt worked for TKB’s European and Competition Law Group in London. Howes Percival says it is keen to expand its European specialist […]
STEP back in time visit an English court. Five of the country’s most historic court buildings will be taking part in Heritage Open Days to show off the nation’s architectural and cultural treasures. Chester Crown Court, Exeter Combined Court Centre, Lincoln Combined Court Centre, Newcastle Law Courts and York Crown Court will be dispensing with […]
One of the smaller legal departments in the local authority arena, Braintree District Council’s team should stay relatively untouched by CCT’s introduction. With much of its work already farmed out to local firm Holmes & Hill, Braintree expects its in-house legal element to fall beneath the Govern- ment’s designated u300,000 de minimis level – protecting […]
It has been described as “the largest act of corruption in the history of local government; corruption of the machinery itself”. But now those with blackened reputations will have the chance to put their case at public hearings next month. Among them will be Robert Lewis, at Freshfields since 1988, but who joined Westminster Council […]
LEGAL Aid Board member Kate Markus is to join Doughty Street Chambers next month. She has been working at the Brent Law Centre for 10 years, is a former chair of the Law Centres Federation and is also chair of the Public Law Project. She says: “I want to specialise in public law and judicial […]
When regional firm Stoneham Langton & Passmore won the u1 million contract for Croydon Council’ s legal work earlier this year it stamped its name on the local authority market. The firm, which operates from three offices around the country, including a six-partner Croydon practice, was awarded the tender after beating more than 70 top […]