Andrew Burnyeat reports FORMER shadow attorney-general, Arthur Davidson QC has joined “left-of-centre” chambers, Cloisters. The chambers of David Turner Samuels QC has also recruited two young barristers, Christopher Quinn and Matthew Ryder, in a drive to boost its civil liberties’ work. Three months ago Davidson left his post as head of legal services at Mirror […]
Despite Sunday trading law changes the High Court has paved the way for self-styled anti Sunday trading campaigner, Roy Edey, a 68-year-old retired solicitor’s clerk, to launch private prosecutions against Woolworths, Superdrug and Tesco for alleged Shops Act breaches. The case is to come on as soon as possible, but in giving Edey leave to […]
The case of Kuwait Airways Corporation v the Kuwait Insurance Co Sak , Warba Insurance Co Sak, Al Ahelia Insurance Co Sak and Gulf Insurance Co Sak, is listed for hearing in the Commercial Court after October. In a multi million claim Kuwait Airways claim an indemnity pursuant to the terms of an aviation hull […]
FORMER Goodie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, is to star in a training video for Bar students which will also be used for qualified barristers. The video is entitled “Do I Have To Talk To The Client?”, a feeling which sums up the views of many barristers, according to its creator, Rosemary Samwell-Smith. The video aims to help […]
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October 3, first day of the Michelmas term, has been set for a complex libel action in which forensic scientist Dr Frank Skuse who gave key evidence in the trial of the Birmingham Six is suing Granada TV over World in Action programme claims which he says questioned his evidence. The case is to be […]
Challenging subpoena duces tecum for irregularity Khanna v Lovell White Durrant (1994) . (Ch.D (Sir Donald Nicholls V-C) 5.7.94.) Summary: Validity of subpoena duces tecum requiring documents to be produced before the date of the main trial confirmed under the court’s inherent jurisdiction. Application by subpoena’d witness to set aside a subpoena duces tecum where […]
SHEILA VALERIE MAISIE TENNANT, solicitors clerk, who worked for Lister Croft, Wakefield, banned from working for any further solicitors without written consent from Law Society and ordered to pay u727 costs. Tribunal told Tennant received a suspended two year jail sentence at Wakefield Crown Court on October 16, 1992, for theft. Sentence imposed after she […]
Linda Tsang CITY firm Hobson Audley has invested u200,000 in replacing its existing Wang OIS word-processing system with a PC networking system from supplier Pilgrim. The firm opted for a network system based on Novell Netware with 40 Digital PCs running Microsoft Windows, Word and Laserforms. This system is based on two identical, mirrored servers, […]
VALUABLE paintings stolen from Lincoln’s Inn will this week be the subject of one of the last legal battles over the ancient law of market overt. The legal loophole, allowing buyers to retain title to stolen goods if they are bought from certain open-air markets, is on the way out. A private members’ bill abolishing […]
I have been asked to point out that the comments made by Kevin Thorpe in his article (The Lawyer, 11 October) ‘Second class citizens,’ regarding the visit to the University of Hertfordshire by representatives of Herbert Smith, do not, in the opinion of university law staff, accurately represent what transpired on that occasion, and that […]
Wm Morrison Supermarkets was advised by Gordons Wright & Wright on its u150 million revolving credit and sterling acceptance facility with 24 banks