South East firm ASB Law is facing a £100,000 negligence claim brought by a former client of the firm’s personal injury department. Elaine Fairfax instructed ASB in relation to a claim she brought against hardware retailer B&Q when she hurt her back in one of its stores. ASB won £11,000 in damages and £18,000 in […]
Shadow Attorney General Bill Cash MP has been taken on by Halliwell Landau as a full-time consultant. His remuneration, which he will declare in the House of Commons Register of Members’ Interests when Parliament returns in mid-0ctober, is expected to be substantial, particularly as he has just relinquished a former consultancy arrangement with RadcliffesLeBrasseur.Cash, the Conservative MP […]
Eversheds real estate group has appointed its first partner to be fully devoted to its international practice. Midlands real estate head Tim Webb (left) will hand over to Mary Daunt, who joined last year from Garretts, to focus on building cross-border work with Paris, the US, the Middle East and Asia.
Simmons & Simmons has hired an Allen & Overy associate as a partner in its banking practice. Philip Abbott brings considerable experience of advising financial institutions on real estate finance matters.
Nicholson Graham & Jones has lost its head of employment Jane Liddington to Hextalls. She will join Mark Shulman at Hextalls as the joint head of the employment department. Senior partner Paul Connolly said Liddington’s arrival was another part of the significant growth of the firm in the past 12 months. Emma Vere-Jones
Put off studying law in his youth, Andrew Wren got into porn by accident. He has a starring role too – as company secretary. Emma Vere-Jones reports “I’m a frustrated lawyer,” says Andrew Wren. Given that he’s the company secretary and finance director at Playboy TV UK, it would be too easy to snigger at […]
Naomi Rovnick reports on whether abolishing litigation seats for trainees will really work Many City trainees who want to qualify into corporate, property or banking do not much like the idea of spending three to six months in a litigation seat. This is as obvious as the fact that most seven-year-olds will not voluntarily eat […]
Technology and media floats may be coming back into fashion, with Wolfson Microelectronics blazing the trail (The Lawyer, 22 September), but the appetite among the UK’s leading AIM specialists for handling the prospective flotation of pornography business Private Media Group (PMG) appears flaccid at best. PMG is exploring the viability of a London float later […]
Linklaters is increasing its dominance of the South African government’s Black Economic Empowerment Programme (BBE) after landing a multimillion-pound sale for Impala Platinum Holdings. Linklaters corporate partner Charlie Jacobs is acting for the longstanding South African client on offloading its 27.1 per cent stake in Western Platinum and Eastern Platinum (referred to jointly as Lonplats) […]
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has scooped a key role advising new client Apax Partners on its billion-dollar buyout of satellite operator Inmarsat. Milbank has teamed up with Clifford Chance to act for joint bidders Apax and Permira, which have been granted preferred bidder status by Inmarsat. Milbank is handling both due diligence and regulatory […]
What is the difference between an ‘event’ and an ‘occurrence’? Charles Bending reports on recent insurance cases that have tried to clear up the debate Insurers and reinsurers have struggled with the much-debated concepts of ‘event’ and ‘occurrence’ for many years. Excess of loss contract wordings vary, but many include provisions to aggregate “each and […]
Should fraudulent insureds lose the legitimate part of their claim or just the inflated part? Alison Hart reports on the diminishing duty of good faith within the insurance market It is a long-established principle of English law that contracts of insurance are contracts of the utmost good faith. However, recent decisions of the courts and […]