BANKING head partner Cate Wood and assistant Mike Yardley have left Davies Arnold Cooper to join rival Manchester firm Addleshaw Sons & Latham. But DAC is recruiting three lawyers from top commercial firms, who will expand the banking team to five. DAC has just been joined by Turner Kenneth Brown banking partner John Nelmes. Another […]
Criminal solicitors are being “well and truly stuffed by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (SIF)”, conference delegates were told. Chair Judith Naylor, of Barnsley’s Orsborn Naylor, said criminal practitioners were having to pay over the odds and that the group would be pushing for changes. “There has been no claim by a criminal practitioner for at […]
Imagine a senior executive telling his md that he has a great project that the company must take on, but he has no idea how much it will cost, how long it will take, and whether it will be profitable. This is what most companies face when they embark on litigation or arbitration. Clients deserve […]
Kingsley Napley is mourning the loss of co-founding partner Sir David Napley, one of the country’s most famous legal household names. Sir David, a widely-respected lawyer and colourful personality, was closely identified in the public’s eye with the firm he set up with the late Sidney Kingsley in 1937. Partners and staff are “devastated” by […]
THE International Bar Association has appointed former British naval attachC Paul Hoddinott OBE as its next executive director. Hoddinott emerged from a shortlist of seven candidates who each faced a grilling at the hands of a panel of seven top IBA officials. He takes over from Madeleine May on 1 January, 1995. May has held […]
Two barristers from chambers at 6 Gray’s Inn Square were disbarred last week and will form a new legal aid partnership with a solicitor to specialise in Crown Court advocacy work. The two barristers, James O’Keefe and Avtar Bhatoa, will enrole as solicitors and carry on their criminal practice under a new identity as solicitor-advocates. […]
Speaking to the Bar Council conference last weekend, Law Society president Charles Elly tried to calm barristers’ fears over possible referral fees – or kickbacks – between solicitors or barristers for advocacy work. Kickback deals on court work would be against society advocacy rules, and Bar concerns may be based on a misunderstanding of the […]
A prisoner, hoping for parole, is told that release is dependent on a place on a drugs rehabilitation scheme. The local authority which runs such schemes refuses to assess the prisoner’s suitability until he is granted parole. Catch 22? Cases such as this indicate what the legal future may hold for community care. As healthcare […]
Mishcon de Reya has acted as the main UK lawyer in the creation of the world’s largest business travel agency, in a major deal between part of Paris-based Accor Group with Carlson Travel Group of the US. Mishcons acted for Wagonlit Travel, the Accor Group subsidiary involved in the ‘strategic union’ – essentially a joint […]
Plans for a no-fault compensation scheme, side-stepping lawyers and the courts, are to be looked at by a working party after they were unveiled at an insurance conference. Alan Fisher, a partner with Davies Arnold Cooper, put forward the proposals at a conference of the Liability Underwriters Group. Delegates were broadly in favour of a […]
FORMER local authority solicitor Elizabeth Tompson has been appointed as the internal ombudsman to Cambridge City Council. Tompson, who left her position as lecturer in law at Cambridge Business College (CBC) to take up the post, has signed a 12-month contract. She hopes to continue teaching part-time. As ombudsman she is able to award “modest” […]