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Top ten firm Simmons & Simmons is negotiating with several IT suppliers, including Wang, as part of its new networking strategy. Wang is just one of a number of IT suppliers hoping to provide the firm’s new system, which is part of a five-year IT plan. The winners of the system bid will be announced […]
The defendant agents in the Gooda Walker action are to appeal against the judgment of Mr Justice Phillips, in particular on the approach to be adopted in assessing damages recoverable.
Osborne Clarke acted for the management on its £65m buy out of Fairey Hydraulics from Fairley Arlon BV, advised by Ashurst Morris Crisp. Equity was provided by Candover, advised by Travers Smith Braithwaite, and debt finance was provided by the Bank of Scotland, represented by Lovell White Durrant. Dibb Lupton Alsop acted for the management […]
Legal Aid Act 1988 s.18 Keller v Keller and Legal Aid Board (1994) (CA 20.10.94.) (Neill LJ, Wilson J) Summary: Costs to a successful and deserving non-assisted party will not be awarded against the legal aid fund unless such an order would be made if neither party was assisted by legal aid. Wife’s appeal against […]
A High Court challenge is due to be heard soon in which three Germans are fighting to establish that they are entitled to income support under UK law. The three claim the Government was wrong to refuse them money from public funds. The case is viewed by their solicitor, Jay Sharma, as raising for the […]
Roger Pearson looks ahead A County Council faces High Court test case action soon over its refusal to make a discretionary grant to a law student. The challenge, which is likely to have significant bearing on the discretionary grant policies of many local authorities, has been mounted against Warwickshire County Council. Law student Simon Williams […]
Mike Yuille THE BAR Council’s proposal for new regulations limiting the numbers of barristers used in criminal cases may be taken up by the Government sooner than many expect. The proposal appears in the Bar’s current clutch of measures for cutting waste in the criminal legal aid system. It is, in fact, a repeat of […]
Sacked Welsh Rugby Union general secretary, Dennis Evans, is to challenge his dismissal on two fronts. Evans has an industrial tribunal claim pending over his dismissal. He has also mounted High Court action to show he should never have been dismissed.
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US supplier Gilbert Technologies has become one of the first major US suppliers to tackle the UK legal practice management systems market. The company has launched Professional 3.0 Desktop, and already has a beta test site at Slaughter and May. The system which will be available to law firms in the UK has been designed […]
THE LAW Commission has taken an important step towards strengthening the public interest element in the judicial review system, says a leading authority in the field. Richard Gordon QC, the first barrister to take silk in public law, welcomes the commission’s proposed reforms which will give pressure groups the right to take on cases, lay […]