The case of the fizzing pain killers is heading for the High Court. Sanofi Winthrop, which manufactures Panadol Soluble tablets, is suing Brunner Mond & Co, of Northwich, Cheshire, for £348,000. It claims that a batch of anhydrous sodium carbonate supplied by Brunners failed to work in the way intended with the result that the Panadol tablets effervesced in their packets. When the case gets to court the company will accuse Brunners of breach of contract.
Paralegal breakthrough
I read with interest the article in The Lawyer 8 October whereby “Norton Rose opts for paralegals to liberate solicitors”. If it takes this sort of statement and policy line to “liberate the profession” then it cannot be more welcomed, especially by people in my position who have completed law degrees and the Legal Practice […]