Although Mr Justice Harman might have made a point recently of saying he had never heard of the chart topping group Oasis, the names of their members are set to loom large on High Court cause lists later this year. A major music industry battle over royalties is now pending between the group's former drummer, Andrew McCarroll, and other members of the group, Noel and Liam Gallagher, Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs and Paul 'Guigsy' McQuiggan. No date has yet been set and Mr Justice Harman has said it should not take place before 13 May.
Clerical Medical take-over sets life assurance pattern
THE £800 million Halifax take-over of Clerical Medical is likely to herald a rash of life assurance “demutualisations”, according to the lawyers who helped forge the deal. Large teams of lawyers from City firms Lovell White Durrant and Linklaters & Paines worked on the take-over agreement which was announced in a blaze of publicity last […]
