Sir Hayden Phillips will succeed Sir Thomas Legg QC as Permanent Secretary at the Lord Chancellor's Department and as Clerk to the Crown in Chancery on 10 April. Phillips, the first non-lawyer to head the department, is currently Permanent Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Legg retires after 35 years at the LCD, which is to take on 40 extra staff at a cost of £2.5m to boost its policy team.
Lovells' and BCCI liquidators' fees to get independent scrutiny
BCCI creditors are to appoint a watchdog to oversee the liquidators and their lawyer, Lovell White Durrant, after they ran up fees totalling $313m over the past seven years. A report to the Department of Trade and Industry last December revealed that legal fees up to January 1997 totalled $94.5m. This figure includes counsels’ fees […]
