Clinical/Medical Negligence
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UAE: the standard of care for special care objects and equipment and the extent of liability of its custodian download
The responsibility for objects that need special care or sophisticated mechanical equipment lies with the person who is in control of said objects.
Health Alert — 6 May 2013 download
The 6 May 2013 issue of DLA Piper’s Health Alert publication is available now.
Health Alert — 13 May 2013 download
The 13 May 2013 issue of DLA Piper’s Health Alert publication is available now.
Responsible commissioner: making sense of the new rules and guidance download
This briefing is intended to cut through the pages of small print and to see where CCGs will stand in the new world order when it comes to planning and securing services for patients.
Appropriately processing data from individuals with mental health problems download
The Money Advice Liaison Group has released a briefing note on the best practice for appropriately processing data from individuals with mental health problems.
Elements for determining medical negligence download
Definition of medical negligence according to UAE law.
Transgender patients: doctors and the General Medical Council download
Doctors treating transgender patients will be required to adopt a change of attitude or potentially face fitness-to-practise investigations by the General Medical Council.
Good character evidence: Wisson v Health Professions Council (2013) download
The appellant was a podiatrist — Raymond Wisson — registered with the HPC. It was alleged by a female colleague that he had made sexually inappropriate comments during a conversation with her at work.
Importance of legal representation before regulatory bodies download
This paper from Shoosmiths looks at the importance of legal representation before regulatory bodies.
Clear intent
The Mid Staffordshire Inquiry’s call for a duty of candour will have far-reaching effects on the NHS and clinical negligence - if it is ever implemented
Alcohol strategy consultation download
The alcohol strategy consultation (“the Consultation) published on 28 November 2012 seeks views on a number of proposed changes to the licensing laws.
Hot 100: Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC, One Crown Office Row
Like a handful of her peers, Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC chose the bar because a man told her it was no place for a woman.
Sending the privilege away: attorney-client emails in the corporate setting download
In a pending False Claims Act case involving allegations of noncompliance with the federal physician self-referral law, the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida has issued a recent order denying the protection of attorney-client privilege.
Irwin Mitchell, RJW, Thompsons on standby for breast cancer clin neg case
Irwin Mitchell, Russell, Jones & Walker and Thompsons are among a group of nine firms pursuing claims against a doctor who has been suspended by the General Medical Council after he allegedly performed “unnecessary or inappropriate” breast cancer operations on more than 1,000 women.
Confidentiality clauses: bound and gagged download
Recent publicity about confidentiality or ‘gagging’ clauses in employees’ severance agreements, especially where matters of wider public interest arise, has highlighted the issues involved in the negotiation and drafting of such provisions.
Gleiss in government negligence case
Advice for a previous German federal state government comes back to haunt Gleiss
Charles Russell terminates clin neg
Charles Russell has pulled out of clinical negligence work after a series of raids left it bereft of any partners in the practice.
Charles Russell loses clin neg head as Irwin Mitchell swoops
Charles Russell personal injury and clinical negligence head Amanda Stevens has defected to Irwin Mitchell just months after Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) raided the firm for its London-based medical negligence team.
Sorry: the hardest word
The call for more openness in healthcare is understandable, but as Katie Costello points out, making it work in practice is not quite so straightforward
FFW swoops for Charles Russell’s med neg team
Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has hired Charles Russell’s London-based medical negligence team as it looks ahead to a period ofconsolidation in the market.
Beachcroft adds health team to nascent Dublin office
Beachcroft has bolstered its fledgling Dublin office with the hire of a four-strong team from local Irish firms.
Personal Injury/Clinical Negligence Special Report: Health Checks
Will justice ever be seen to be done when a profession regulates itself? Nicholas Braslavsky QC of Kings Chambers says it’s time for the independent regulation of healthcare professionals
Claimant lawyers speak out over NHSLA criticism
Lawyers have rounded on NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) allegations that the claimant profession is bleeding the NHS dry by racking up massive legal bills.
Healthcare watchdog shakes up legal teams
The legal teams at the NHS regulator and all other adult healthcare supervisory bodies have been overhauled with the creation of super-watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
6 Pump Court closes its doors as fee cuts and Clementi bite
One of the bar’s leading clinical negligence sets, 6 Pump Court, will dissolve on 17 January 2005.
RAC slates proposals to raise small PI claim limit to £5,000
The RAC has hit out at recent proposals to raise the ‘small claims’ limit for personal injury work to £5,000. RAC Legal Services head Jonathan Gulliford said the plans, outlined recently by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, will seriously affect many people claiming compensation for injuries. “Raising the small claims limit is throwing the baby out with the bathwater,” he said.
Hill Dickinson merger hikes half-year figures
Hill Dickinson has re-corded a 34 per cent turnover rise for the first six months of the 2004-05 financial year.
Blackstone gifts CC first-time instruction on care home deal
Clifford Chance has sealed its first major UK deal for Blackstone Capital Partners (BCP), advising on the private equity firm’s recommended bid for care home business NHP.
LeBoeuf gets fourth partner in a year with IP hire
LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae has scooped an IP partner from Hammonds. Head of Hammonds’ biotech/life sciences practices, Marija Danilunas is dual-qualified as a Canadian barrister and a solicitor in England. She left Hammonds in September and becomes the fourth partner lateral this year to arrive at LeBoeuf’s London office. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 10 November
For the record...
In ‘NHSLA launches new panel review’ (page 4, 11 October), it was incorrectly stated that George Davies & Co was a panel firm of the NHS Litigation Authority. George Davies Solicitors had been a panel firm until 2003, when it made a strategic decision to stop its clinical negligence work. We are happy to set the record straight.
Firm profile: Hempsons
Established in 1890, Hempsons is anything but an old-fashioned firm. In the 115 years since it was created, when its partners broke away from Slaughter and May, the firm has remained independent, preferring, as managing partner Janice Barber puts it, to “slip the baton and ...
1COR bags four clinical negligence experts
With top sets growing in size to improve financial security, 1 Crown Office Row (1COR) has hired four tenants, including leading clinical negligence silk Elizabeth-Anne Gumbel QC.
Taylor Walton
The philosophy at Taylor Walton is simple: regional is best.
PI lawyers slam Law Soc over referral fees
the Law Society’s stance on referral fees.
Wheels of injustice
There has been much lobbying for tough laws on corporate killing, but the Government has reneged on its promises to make them. By Joanne Harris
Careers: people
Cobbetts has bolstered its IP, information, communications and technology and media teams with the hire of two solicitors for its Manchester office. Laura Harper arrives after a five-year stint at Pannone & Partners, while Sonia Luthra joins the top 50 firm from DWF Solicitors.
PI lawyers hit out over referral fees
Personal injury lawyers hit out yesterday (Wednesday 8 August) at the Law Society’s stance on referral fees.
Personal injury law firm network to launch in London
A new network of London firms is being launched to give personal injury advice across the capital.
Balfour & Manson hooks up with GW Tait
Edinburgh firm Balfour & Manson has bolstered its private client practice by merging with GW Tait & Sons. The move will see two GW Tait partners, George Tait and Allen Kerr, join the partnership, along with three associates and the majority of the firm’s staff. The 18-partner firm has expanded significantly this year with the acquisition in May of a substantial part of the personal injury practice of Aberdeen firm Burnside Kemp Fraser and the opening of an Aberdeen office, its first outside ...
Irwin Mitchell names Knaggs as new Leeds leader
Irwin Mitchell’s Leeds office has appointed a new managing partner.
Merriman White still open for business
In our article of 9 August 2004 about Merriman White, we reported that the firm was closed for business. We understand however that the firm has been taken over by two new partners: Andrew Crossley and Dominic Murphy, who have bought the practice from its former partners. Merriman White acts for the majority of its predecessor’s clients and employs the vast majority of its support staff and fee-earners and, as before, will be a specialist practice in its core areas of commercial and ...
Clarkson Wright & Jakes
Some of the highest achievers start late in life. Some of those people end up at the very top of their professions. It’s the benefit of life experience, they say.
Careers: people
Davies Arnold Cooper has announced a trio of promotions and a new appointment at associate partner level. Janie Castle joins the commercial litigation team in London from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, while Gillian Dada, Mark Shaya and Crispin Tomlinson have all been promoted to associate partner level in the product liability, insurance and property divisions. The promotions follow the recent announcement of five new equity partners at the firm.
Bott & Co
David Bott, the sole proprietor of Bott & Co, is a man on a mission. He says he wants to “put the people” back into the law.
Careers: people
Gateley Wareing has recruited a new associate to bolster the corporate services division in its Birmingham HQ. Chris Reed, who specialises in acquisitions and disposals as well as joint ventures, joins from Wragge & Co.
Careers: people
Matthew Arnold Baldwin announced a string of promotions last week, including Karen Jones, who became a partner in the firm’s IT and e-commerce division. Five lawyers have also been made up to associate.
CFAs set or further regulations
Civil Justice Minister David Lammy last week launched another consultation paper on conditional fee arrangements (CFAs), proposing to scrap regulations introduced less than four years ago.
Leo Abse & Cohen
Ian Hopkins, managing partner of South Wales law firm Leo Abse & Cohen (LAC), makes no bones about how the firm needed a shake-up two years ago. “We recognised that big changes were needed and went through an enormous cultural shift,” he admits. “We were a sleeping giant, but we’ve woken up.”
Careers: people
Maxwell Batley has announced a slew of new appointments as part of its ongoing expansion drive. Mandeep Ubbey and Una McNamara join the London firm from Herbert Smith, where they were assistants in the real estate department. Emma Thornington arrives after completing her training in commercial property, property litigation and corporate work at Memery Crystal.
Careers: people
Thames Valley firm Pitmans has appointed a new senior solicitor to its defendant personal injury team. Alan Davies joins from Merriman White, a firm based in London and Guildford. Davies was previously a partner at Gregory Rowcliffe & Milners and Edward Lewis in London and specialises in insurance litigation.
Law Society seeks repeal of limited liability prohibition
The Law Society is to seek the repeal of a prohibition against limiting the liability of a solicitor in a contentious business agreement.
A sporting chance
With sports claims becoming more prevalent, Richard Davies QC and Jonathan Bellamy discuss who will hold the burden of the claims
Stressing the point
Barber v Somerset County Council has resurrected the debate on PI claims for occupational stress. Jeff Zindani and Adam Korn give the employer and employee perspectives
Ways of making you talk
No one can be forced to mediate, but refusal to do so could be risky. Ralph Lewis QC reports
CFA success fee rate nailed down
The Civil Justice Council has agreed the level of success fees payable under conditional fee arrangements in employer liability accident cases.
Report blames media for compensation culture
The Better Regulation Task Force criticised stories suggesting that the UK is in the grip of a “compensation culture” in a report published last week. ‘Better Routes to Redress’ looks at the perception and management of personal injury claims. It concluded that media reports and claims management companies are encouraging people to make unreasonable claims and that, in response, public bodies go to unnecessary lengths to protect themselves from litigation. The report’s recommendations ...
BL&B solicitors
Bishop Longbotham & Bagnall Solicitors (or, as it would prefer to be known in these days of abbreviated law firm names, BL&B Solicitors) perhaps sums up the dilemma faced by many established regional firms early in the 21st century. Should they keep the faith and retain tried-and-trusted ways of doing things, or jettison the status quo in favour of trendy alternatives, such ...
Leigh Day Manchester office sets up on its own
Leigh Day & Co’s London and Manchester offices have parted ways after the North West four-partner group opted to set up as a separate entity.
Careers: people
Specialist pensions law firm Sacker & Partners has promoted three associates to the partnership: Claire Carey, Alison Cribbs and Joanna Matthews.
Firm profile: JS Miller Solicitors
JS Miller Solicitors senior managing partner Jeanette Miller knows more than just the technical side of personal injury (PI) litigation. As a trainee solicitor she became a victim herself after she fell down some faulty steps and injured her back at work. She successfully sued and the experience motivated her to form her own eponymous practice. Its ethos would ...
Court of Appeal rulings put paid to hopes of ADR boom
Hopes of a sudden rise in mediation have been shattered after the Court of Appeal ruled against fining two companies that refused to consider alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
IBB Solicitors announces peak in turnover
South East firm IBB Solicitors is boasting a record turnover of £10.59m for this financial year, an increase of 12 per cent from last yeart. In May, personal injury partner Malcolm Underhill joined the firm from Vizards Wyeth.
Firm profile: Clarke Willmott
A lot of law firms talk about understanding their clients’ needs, but Clarke Willmott claims to offer “more understanding”. This is the South West firm’s brand, and it means what it says. “It could sound a bit nebulous,” says managing partner David Sedgwick, “but we’re serious.”
Balfour & Manson takes on rival’s PI team
Edinburgh’s Balfour & Manson has scooped the bulk of the personal injury (PI) practice of Aberdeen’s Burnside Kemp Fraser, gaining its first office outside the Scottish capital in the process.
QC’s articles for The Lawyer lose him job
One of the bar’s top personal injury barristers has effectively been barred from sitting as a part-time judge because of a perceived claimant bias identified through articles he wrote for The Lawyer.
Taylor Wessing shuts down clinical negligence group
Taylor Wessing shuts down clinical negligence group" /Taylor Wessing has closed its defendant clinical negligence department, which brought in £1m a year, because of the squeeze by insurers on lawyers’ rates.
Firm profile: Branton Edwards
A law firm specialising exclusively in personal injury (PI) work might be expected to be modern and ultra-progressive – and Manchester firm Branton Edwards does not disappoint.
Bond Pearce in clinical negligence expansion
Bond Pearce in clinical negligence expansion" /Bond Pearce has launched a claimant clinical negligence practice in Bristol as it continues to expand its insurance defence offering.
No 5 Fountain Court raid creates 150-tenant set
Birmingham mega-set No 5 Fountain Court has become the first set to reach 150 tenants with the hire of a five-strong personal injury (PI) team from local rival St Philips. The set is also poised to launch a Bristol office, its third site in the UK after London and Birmingham. Graham Cliff, formerly head of the PI team at St Philips, Stephen Campbell, David Tyack and William Pusey are all to join No 5’s highly-rated PI practice. In turn, St Philips has taken on rated employment barrister ...
Firm profile: Withy King
Withy King managing partner Martin Powell is unequivocal in his commitment to new ways of doing things. “To move with the times a firm has to be run as a business, not a traditional partnership,” he argues. “You’ve got to recognise the value of your capital assets and finds ways to value the firm’s work-in-progress and its goodwill in a way that keeps everyone enthused.”
Crown Office Row lures junior duo from Kings
Crown Office Row has hired two junior tenants from Kings Chambers in Manchester. The barristers, John Cooper and Simon Antrobus, specialise in health and safety and corporate manslaughter. For the last seven years they have acted for the Department of Trade and Industry in Griffiths v British Coal Corporation.
Judge calls for reform of law in 'hit and run' cases
A judge made the case for tougher laws governing illegal motorists after being forced to cut his own sentence in the controversial case of an asylum seeker who failed to stop after he ran over and killed a nine-year-old boy.
LSC ‘win-only’ payment scheme on the cards for UK class actions
A radical overhaul of funding arrangements for group action litigation is understood to be under consideration.
Withy King brings London NHS to book
Lawyers at Wiltshire-based firm Withy King have won a major victory against two hospital trusts, with a Coroner’s Court returning the unusual verdict of death by “natural causes, contributed to by neglect”.
Firm profile: Gibson & Co
It was an eventful 2003 for Newcastle’s Gibson & Co. In just a year the 300-year-old firm grew from four partners to six with the hire of two Allen & Overy (A&O) litigators.
Legal frayed
The funding of multiparty clinical negligence actions can be anything but fair, says Adam Korn
Insult to injury
The amount of criticism aimed at PI means practitioners need to move with the times, argues Fraser Whitehead
Long live PI
The bad times of Claims Direct and TAG are still fresh in the memory, but as Keith Miles argues, PI lawyers are positive about what the future holds
Grasping the nettle
Law firms’ PI practices are fighting a tempestuous market and the legacy of the claims managers. Brendan Malkin investigates the flipside of the PI market
Eight South West firms create single PI entity
A group of South West firms has responded to a troubled personal injury market by banding together to promote their services. Under the banner of the ‘Wessex Accident Link’, the eight member firms, which are based across Dorset and Hampshire, have each contributed to the cost of local radio advertising and the use of a call centre. The firms, ranging in size from two partners to 14, are Biscoes, Churchers, Dickinson Manser, Glanvilles, Knight & Co, Lawcomm, Steele Raymond and White ...
Firm profile: Fennemores
The people of Milton Keynes were, until recently, inhabitants of the largest conurbation without a league football team in Europe. The consortium Inter MK was formed to change all that. It spearheaded the drive to bring London’s Wimbledon FC to Milton Keynes. This season, Wimbledon has played in front of capacity crowds in its temporary home of the Milton Keynes ...
Firm profile: Whitehead Monckton
Last November, Kent firm Whitehead Monckton underwent a complete rebranding in a bid to raise its profile, not only in Kent but also across the South East. Its aim was to signal that the firm was no longer just a high street practice.
Master of the Rolls slams UK’s treatment of accident victims
The Master of the Rolls yesterday attacked the UK’s shameful record on looking after accident victims. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers made a plea for the Government to back the rehabilitation of those affected in its forthcoming plans to deal with the spiralling costs of employer’s liability insurance.
Alexander Harris loses PI head to growing firm
Alexander Harris has lost its head of personal injury (PI) to South London law firm Anthony Gold. Jenny Kennedy is a serious injury specialist. She joins the firm as a partner. The appointment follows on from Anthony Gold’s recent mergers with local firms Warren & Co in Streatham and Jockelson McNulty & Co in Walworth.
PI partner quits Russell Jones
The Birmingham office of Russell Jones & Walker is to lose one of its three partners at the end of the year, with the departure of John McDonnell and a senior associate.
Firms team up on GE's Amersham takeover
A triumvirate of law firms has joined forces for one of the fewbillion-pound deals of the year, General Electric's (GE) £5.7bntakeover of UK healthcare group Amersham.GE has turned to its usual UK law firm Slaughter and May for corporatead...
Clarke Willmott gets separate funding for PI practice as new figures show growth spurt
Clarke Willmott has broken new ground by arranging a separate funding facility with its bank, RBS, for its burgeoning personal injury (PI) practice. The move is an acknowledgement of the practice area's recent growth at the firm and the nature of PI work generally.The funding, established in the current financial year, is based on a proportion of the value of the work in progress (WIP) Clarke ...
Unspoken horrors
Children in child abuse cases may go unprotected because doctors are too afraid to speak out. Bertie Leigh reports
Remote control
As with any kind of new technology, telemedicine's growth is unstoppable. Will Marshall warns that this brave new world needs regulating
Bolam out?
Does the Chief Medical Officer’s report into clinical negligence in the NHS signal the end of the Bolam test? Nicholas Wilkes discusses the merits of the old method as against new plans
Withy & King prepares for IVF battle
The judgment in a groundbreaking challenge to the current law relating to IVF treatment, as laid down by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, is expected at the Royal Courts of Justice on 1 October.
Apil awareness campaign stains hair dye reputation
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil) has launched a campaign to raise awareness among women of the dangers lurking in hair dyes.
Underwoods teams with uni for SA training
Personal injury (PI) firm Underwoods held talks last Friday (12 September) with Nottingham Law School on establishing a formal tie-up to train solicitors for its recently-launched South African operations (The Lawyer, 1 September).
HSE prosecution guide for directors slammed by CCA
Legal profession voices fears that 'vague' guidelines will hamper health and safety investigations
Three is the magic number
Stringent criteria ruling the law on psychiatric injury do not allow for cases to be judged individually. Alan Eadie says that worthy cases may not be getting the justice they deserve
Accident plan
The Government is hoping to dig itself out of a hole with its new £30K NHS redress scheme. But will victims of negligence get short changed?
Manchester's Donns sues ex-personal injury partner
Manchester firm Donns Solicitors is seeking damages and an injunction against a former partner after she allegedly solicited for business from clients before leaving the firm.Former personal injury partner Lesley Casey allegedly sent letters to clients on Donns' headed notepaper together with the brochure for her new firm, Alexander Harris, on 25 April this year.She is now being sued personally by Donns senior partner Raymond Donn, who is understood to hold all ...
Pattinson & Brewer faces negligence claim
Personal injury (PI) and clinical negligence firm Pattinson & Brewer is being sued for negligence by a brain damaged former electrician.
4 New Square loses civil liberties expert
Nick Brown has quit 4 New Square for Doughty Street Chambers to develop his civil liberties and clinical negligence practice. Brown's broad-based professional liability practice has increasingly focused on clinical negligence and personal injury claims. He also developed a niche civil liberties practice. He is presently acting for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prominent black activist on death row in Pennsylvania.
Barrister appeals on charge of negligence
A professional negligence barrister is seeking leave to appeal to the House of Lords to overturn a finding of negligence against her.
Maclay hires for London corporate practice
Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens has bolstered its London-based corporate practice with the appointment of Jonathan Brooks, head of Boodle Hatfield's corporate department. Brooks specialises in a wide range of work for private companies and joint ventures with particular focus in the healthcare, financial services, computer software and e-commerce sectors.
Russell Jones & Walker says New Claims Direct is no TAG
Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) has sought to distance its New Claims Direct service from that of The Accident Group (TAG), which collapsed last week, as well as from the old Claims Direct service, which RJW purchased in February 2003.
QC hauled over the coals by Medical Defence Union
Leading medical negligence silk Paul Rees QC is himself being sued for negligence by the Medical Defence Union (MDU).
Gage slams lawyers for high costs
Claimant lawyers acting in the organ retention litigation were slammed in the High Court last week for overestimating the number of hours they would spend in preparation and during the trial.
Amelans' injurylawyers4u attracts high-profile panel
Heavyweight personal injury (PI) firms, including Leigh Day & Co and Pannone & Partners, have signed up as shareholders of Manchester firm Amelans' TV-advertised claims company injurylawyers4u.
Brick Court wins barrister from 2 Temple Gardens
Brick Court Chambers has recruited Tim Lord from 2 Temple Gardens. Lord has focused on personal injury and insurance work in the past, but has been signed to assist Brick Court with its banking and financial services work. He spent 10 years at 2 Temple Gardens after qualifying at Slaughter and May.
Accidental success
TAG might not be the most popular company, but it is certainly successful. Its founder Mark Langford meets Jon Robins and tries to dispel some myths
Glaxo to review panel
GlaxoSmithKline is carrying out a complete review of its outside law firms and will have a new panel by the end of the year.
Bayer launches first UK legal department
New head Wilkinson to reassess external lawyers; Bristows to benefit
A&O instructed by Celltech on largest Euro biotech deal
Allen & Overy (A&O) is acting on what is believed to be Europe's largest ever biotechnology deal.
Clarke Willmott hires clinical negligence ace
Clarke Willmott & Clarke's medical team has hired the clinical negligence specialist who is advising the National Committee Relating to Organ Retention (Nacor).
Burroughs Day sets up biotech unit
Bristol firm Burroughs Day has launched a specialist biotechnology acquisition and intellectual property (IP) unit.
Break on the border
Fiona Callister finds out how Bevan Ashford chief executive Nick Jarrett-Kerr is reacting to a reduction in work for English firms due to changes prompted by Welsh devolution
Nabarros in Genpak biotech deal
Nabarro Nathanson has clinched a biotechnology deal for Genpak through its involvement with a venture capitalist workshop, dubbed Venturefest.
Thompsons in drastic corporate restructure
Personal injury (PI) firm Thompsons has appointed a chief executive officer, a chief finance officer and a chief operations officer as part of its strategy to devolve decision-making away from the partners. Senior managing partners Geoff Shears and Frank Foy have been appointed CEO and COO respectively. Both partners are PI and trade union lawyers.
Thompsons opts for corporate structure
Personal injury firm Thompsons has defied years of legal tradition by becoming the first major law firm to structure itself as a plc.
Clyde & Co hires Novartis UK legal chief to open IP practice
The head of legal at biotechnology company Novartis UK is leaving to join Clyde & Co.
Lawrence Graham drops PI practice
Lawrence Graham is turning its back on two partners and around £1m worth of fees in the closure of its defendant personal injury practice.
199 Strand overhauls management structure
Long-established personal injury (PI) and professional and clinical negligence chambers 199 Strand is to undergo a major overhaul of its management structure as it becomes more proactive about bar reforms.
PFI health sector sparks controversy
Will PFI lead to healthcare privatisation by the back door? Robert Parr reports on the implications for lawyers
Vizards targets NHS litigation
London firm Vizard Oldham is taking on a leading healthcare litigation partner from Capsticks in a drive to turn its focus away from insurance litigation.
SmithKline Beecham
Neither Thomas Beecham, who launched his Beecham's laxative pills way back in 1842, nor John K Smith, who opened his first drugstore in Philadelphia several years before, could have imagined the huge empire their businesses would become.
