Linklaters & Paines won this year's Great Legal challenge, a 3.5-mile road race hosted by Chase Manhattan Bank and sponsored by The Lawyer. Linklaters was one of 46 firms to take part in the race in Battersea Park last week. The team, Richard Buckingham, Paul Prendergast, James Nairne, Tony Sparkes and Roland Sinker, had an overall time of under two hours.
Tree damage falls to councils
An Appeal Court decision has set a costly precedent for local authorities over damage caused by trees, says Roger Pearson The recent dry summers have played havoc with the foundations of properties throughout the UK and subsidence has become common. Home-owners have learned to their cost that trees, which they may have been told posed […]