3 August 2015

Firms embrace agile working

Two top-100 firms, DAC Beachcroft and Wedlake Bell, have this week pledged to move away from traditional working methods to embrace ‘hot-desking’. 

4 August 2005

Claims farmers ‘cash in’ on bombings

The Law Society has urged victims and families affected by last month’s London bombings to only approach reputable firms for legal advice, amid concerns that ‘ambulance-chasing’ claims management companies are attempting to cash in. 

31 August 1995

Women bar students better males in finals

Women students outperformed their male counterparts for the first time in the bar final exam, it was announced earlier this month by the Council of Legal Education’s Inns of Court School of Law. But there was lingering concern over the comparatively low performance of ethnic minority students. 

August 1965

The president

It may well be true that the City of Manchester relies for its fame upon its century-old association with the cotton trade. It would be wrong, however, to think that its fame rests there, for there are few walks of life in which the sons of this somewhat gaunt city have not gained great distinction. It is, therefore, somewhat surprising that it is 41 years since a Manchester solicitor was president of the Law Society. On 9 July 1965, this omission was repaired when Mr Derek Percy Hilton MBE was elected president. 

August 1945

Notes of the month

For the defence of William Joyce [Lord Haw-Haw], the maximum available for the defending solicitor’s charges will be £12.3.0 and the maximum for all counsel concerned in the defence will be £27.5.0, a total of £39.8.0. Mr Theobold Mathew, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said: ‘I cannot believe that this is either adequate or that it makes for the good administration of justice.’

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