Paul Cavadino says the James Bulger murder trial revealed the way our legal system treats children who kill is out of sync with the rest of Europe. Paul Cavadino is director of policy at the National Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders. The decision by the European Commission of Human Rights to refer the […]
Linklaters has led a host of top City firms advising on the new Bluewater out-of-town shopping centre in Kent. Billed as Europe’s largest shopping complex development, Bluewater has cost more than u350m to build. Cutting-edge property finance advice over the past year has cost a “considerable amount” in legal fees, say sources. Linklaters is advising […]
The Samuel Smith Old Brewery, Tadcaster, is being taken to the High Court by a couple from Lincoln, who are seeking a court order to ban Smiths from using their business name, Wig and Mitre, for a business run by the brewery next door. Michael and Valerie Hope, who run the Wig and Mitre at […]
NEW YORK lawyers’ salaries are set to spiral following huge wage hikes by middle-tier firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. Its London-based associates have also been handed a bonus, with the promise of a big rise in July. First-year staff at Cadwaladers, which, with 400 lawyers, is ranked 22nd among Manhattan-based firms, now enjoy a basic […]
TOP LOCAL government specialist Anna Forge is understood to be leaving Berwin Leighton for Rowe & Maw. The move will bring two of the best-known local government lawyers, Forge and Tony Child, together. Rowe & Maw’s six-lawyer department has a strong reputation in local government law and Child’s name is synonymous with local government auditors. […]
SLAUGHTER and May has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 in damages after the High Court found it acted negligently in a property deal. The City firm, which is considering an appeal, must pay £204,541 plus interest to Summit Financial Group (formerly Aurit Services) to indemnify the company for possible further losses. The case […]
Cable & Wireless’ has reorganised, leaving one of the UK’s best known in-house lawyers without a job. Elizabeth Wall had been group director of legal and regulatory affairs at C&W since 1990. A spokesman at C&W says that to date she does not have a replacement position. Her deputy Dan Fitz has already been appointed […]
Bryan Cave, the US law firm, is opening an office in Shanghai after being granted a licence to practise in China. Harold Blatt, a partner at the firm’s London office, says he expects the office to open “within the next 30 to 60 days”. The office will do a variety of corporate work.
“I BELIEVE that my role as a lawyer in defending the rights of my clients is vital. The test of a new society in Northern Ireland will be the extent to which it can recognise and respect that role, and enable me to discharge it without improper interference. I look forward to that day.” Rosemary […]
IN-HOUSE lawyers must get tough with private practice over the way they prepare their bills, delegates at the Company Lawyers Conference in Madrid were warned. The vice-president and general counsel of GE Medical Services – a subsidiary of General Electric – told the conference his company was no longer prepared to accept large legal bills […]
A SET held up by the Lord Chancellor as a pioneer of controversial Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) in personal injury actions is now saying the system is flawed. Number 1 Serjeant’s Inn has taken on more than 100 cases on a conditional fee basis, which have highlighted two major potential conflicts of interest. One tenant […]
Peter Leaver QC has joined Graham Kelly and Glenn Hoddle on the bench. John-Paul Flintoff discovers that the latest member of football’s ruling elite to be sent off still feels mightily aggrieved – and perhaps for good reason Until recently, Peter Leaver QC figured among the most important men in English football. As chief executive […]