All News articles – Page 1848
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'Virtual' firm reveals nationwide ambition
By Neil Rose Some of the UK's biggest financial institutions - including HBOS, NatWest and More Th>n - could tie ...
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Birmingham pilots 'secure' email kit
Birmingham solicitors are taking the lead in closing a widespread information security weak point. Birmingham Law Society is testing a plug-in device that encrypts emails between firms and clients. 'Email is fundamental to our duty of client confidentiality and we wish to encourage best practice in this area,' ...
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Criminal procedure
Conspiracy to defraud – defects – execution – powers of entry – search and seizure – search warrants – lawfulness of issue and execution – football clubs
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M&A market 'robust' despite downturn
Billion-pound merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving private equity have dried up but the market is in 'surprisingly good health', according to corporate finance advisory firm Hawkpoint. This year, only one M&A deal has topped £1 billion, with most falling under the £150 million mark, Graham Paton, managing ...
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Firms face £10,000 fine for unregistered foreign staff
EMPLOYMENT: only one legal practice signed up with agency
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Magic circle firm Linklaters promotes 28 to the partnership
PRIVATE PRACTICE Partners Kicking off in London, US firm McDermott Will & Emery recruits John P Cogan Jr as partner and head of global projects and infrastructure, based in ...
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Accidents happen – but what can be published?
Media law update: PCC privacy adjudication, Paul Kirkland and Wiltshire Gazette & Herald
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Lawyers attack accounting exemption for foreign LLPs
TRADING: 'obvious unfairness' on financial statements Leading lawyers have criticised the government's decision not to force overseas limited liability ...
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Unregistered solicitors risk Data Protection Act breach
Solicitors who are not registered under the Data Protection Act will be presumed to be in breach of the act, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) warned this week. The ICO revealed that recent prosecutions of London solicitors are part of a blanket crackdown on solicitors and ...
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Call for advice centre evaluation
REPORT: fears raised over independence of CLACs as government announces six more The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) has warned that the new community legal advice centres (CLACs) might not be sufficiently independent of funding bodies to avoid conflicts of interest, as the government unveils plans for six new ...
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Wealth adviser targets law
LEGAL SERVICES ACT: expenses insurer DAS names Bristol quarry A leading wealth and talent management company has signalled its intention ...
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Appeals procedures
I do not agree with John Ford's claim that legal aid costs appeals are being unfairly undertaken (see [2008] Gazette, 5 June, 12). I would like to reassure Mr Ford that the Legal Services Commission's (LSC) South Tyneside (formerly Newcastle) office deals with each request ...
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LawWorks chief awarded CBE
Paul Newdick, a partner at Clyde & Co and chairman of LawWorks, has received a CBE for services to pro bono legal services in the latest Queen's birthday honours.
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More banks could face OFT raids
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) could raid more banks as it widens its investigation into alleged price fixing by Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a competition lawyer has warned. The OFT raided the two banks following a tip-off from Barclays that there was alleged collusion ...
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In-house counsel ready to look beyond hourly fees
TOOLKIT: C&I to offer advice on alternative charging methods In-house counsel are to be encouraged to use ...
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Row, row, row your boat...
It looks like the boys are attempting to go one better than the girls in the endurance rowing stakes. The star of last week's Obiter, Carolyn Kirkham, rowed from London to Paris - but Charlie Marlow, a 26-year-old solicitor from City firm Charles Russell, is attempting to follow in the ...
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Breeding confidence
I am the solicitor quoted in Peter Williamson's piece 'Doing the right thing' (see [2008] Gazette, 12 June, 15). I welcome the openness of his response, as chairman of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), to the spate of criticisms of the ways in which the SRA sometimes conducts its investigation ...