The Bangkok office of US firm White & Case has poached a Thai partner from rival Baker & McKenzie. Weerawong Chittmittrapap, a Thai and US-qualified lawyer, is said to be in line to head the office. The White & Case office lost its two-year association with local Thai firm the Pacific Legal Group at the […]

Lovell White Durrant has scooped a £1 million contract to advise the Government on the estimated £4 billion sell-off of the Department of Social Security’s national property estate. Lovells won a beauty parade involving at least six other law firms, rumoured to have included Linklaters & Paines, Norton Rose and Nabarro Nathanson. The sell-off, code-named […]

With the revival in the South West’s legal market, perhaps the phrase ‘Go West, young lawyer’ will be heard more often in London chambers. There has been a notable expansion in many of the chambers on the circuit, such as All Saint’s Chambers in Bristol, which now has 12 more barristers in chambers than last […]

Even without the much-publicised but rare cases of pensions scheme fraud, mistakes are frequently made, including failure to comply with the ever-increasing legislation. The Goode Committee recommended that “every breach of duty should carry a sanction” and this has been carried through into the Pensions Act 1995. Indeed, there are now so many offences and […]