SHIPPING expert Tom Birch Reynardson has left Herbert Smith to join Dibb Lupton Alsop’s insurance and shipping group. Birch Reynardson, who is also taking his assistant Nina Hall with him, said that he was impressed with Dibbs’ “existing solid and well established insurance and shipping practice”. Despite the loss, Herbert Smith has maintained that its […]

Garrett & Co’s Manchester office advised the North of England Venture Fund

Lawyers throughout the country may be able to make applications to the Queen’s Bench by video conference if a pilot scheme is successful. Under a scheme designed to save expensive and time-consuming trips to court, lawyers on the Northern Circuit will soon be able to make applications to Queen’s Bench Masters by video conference. If […]

THE GROUP which has been campaigning for the reform of the Dangerous Dogs Act is looking for an MP to sponsor a private member’s bill to change the law. The move by the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Reform Group follows last month’s publication of a Home Affairs Select Committee report which makes a series of […]