Solicitors working in Official Referee's Courts have established a new protocol to improve their working relationship with expert witnesses. The Official Referee's Solicitors Association, whose 170 members take construction and highly technical cases to the Official Referee's Courts, said that there have been misunderstandings with expert witnesses over issues such as fees and their courtroom responsibilities.
Dundas elbows in on Garretts
The management of Arthur Andersens’ existing English law firm, Garretts, is to be shaken up in a bid to accommodate Edinburgh law firm Dundas & Wilson, which announced it was joining Andersens’ network last week. Dundas’ chairman Neil Cochran and managing partner Chris Campbell will both, once registered as foreign lawyers in England, become partners […]