The expert witness has long been important in professional negligence cases but must be used with care, warns Edward Bartley Jones QC. Edward Bartley Jones QC is a barrister at Exchange Chambers in Liverpool. The use of expert evidence is considered in almost all professional negligence cases, but there are often fundamental misconceptions regarding the […]

THE POST Office has slashed the law firms on its panel from 40 to just four each of which can expect to receive around £0.5m a year in fee income. Eversheds, Hammond Suddards, Weightmans and Bond Pearce are the successful bidders for four three-year contracts to handle the Post Office’s personal injury litigation, employment law […]

Clifford Chance’s stand-alone consultancy firm New Bridge Street has lost its managing director, Carol Arrowsmith, to Arthur Andersen’s human capital services team. Arrowsmith was managing director for eight years at the executive remuneration, employee share scheme and pensions specialist firm. She leaves the consultancy with only four partners, one of whom, David Tankel, a former […]