Leading tax lawyer Christopher Cox joined City firm Beachcroft Stanleys last month as a partner from Nabarro Nathanson, where he was also a partner. Cox will head a new commercial tax practice at Beachcrofts. Cox said the merger talks between Beachcrofts, Bristol-based Wansbroughs Willey Hargrave and Manchester's Vaudreys had not been a 'major factor' in his decision to join the firm.
Lords to hear sentence appeal
The House of Lords have agreed to hear an appeal in the case of France Louis Francois. Francois is seeking parole from a prison sentence. The case raises the question of aggregation of consecutive sentences imposed by different courts on different dates to be aggregated for the purpose of calculating the prisoner’s non-parole release date […]
