David Penry-Davey QC, who was chairman of the Bar Council last year, has been made a High Court judge. Penry-Davey was appointed as a recorder in 1986.

Price Waterhouse-tied Arnheim & Co has won a role for itself in one of Europe’s largest ever buyouts: the £620m sale of engineering conglomerate BTR’s polymer products group. Ashurst Morris Crisp did the lion’s share of the work on the deal – advising buyout vehicle Unipoly and the equity backer, Legal and General Ventures, on […]

One of Labour’s leading spin doctors has switched sides, and will now lobby politicians and the press on behalf of the Bar Council. Jo Moore, who has headed Labour’s press office since 1993, will join lobbyist Westminster Strategy on 1 December as an account director. She will be advising – among others – the Bar […]

Scottish solicitors are looking for a conspicuous location in London’s West End for their first English property shop, which is due to open in summer 1998. The London Property Shop (LPS) will be modelled on the successful Edinburgh Solicitors’ Property Centre (ESPC), which acts as a property display centre and has captured more than 90 […]