A STIPENDIARY magistrate sitting at Liverpools City Magistrates Court halted proceedings to vent his frustration at the courts inefficiency. This court does not provide an efficient public service, stormed Paul Firth. The time has come for someone to make a public stand. His outburst was provoked by a string of administrative failures at the courthouse, […]

The Woolwich and the Halifax have both launched in-house conveyancing pilot schemes ‘ paving the way for the likely launch of national schemes next year. Although the banks refuse to commit to a full-blown assault on the conveyancing market, the moves are a further indication of the growing threat that conveyancing solicitors face from the […]

Slaughter and May has recently lost one of its veteran lawyers in Paris to Lovell White Durrant. Philip Boys, who has been in Paris with Slaughters for 17 years, joins Lovells as a partner in its capital markets practice. David Hudd, head of capital markets at Lovells, said: Capital markets is an area that we […]