January 2008 Archives

LIVERPOOL firm IPS Costlaw is holding a unique evening of discussion tonight aimed at professionals with an interest in the treatment of victims of trauma.

Solicitors and barristers as well as non-legal professionals including GPs and therapists will be attenting the event at the Albert Dock, which is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.

The property market has become somewhat like the Wild West over the past few years. Anyone and everyone with a spare buck set out to stake their claim.

I’ve come across many an ill-informed amateur investor – from dentists to plumbers – buying on the assumption that “it’s property; it must go up in price�.

You can’t blame them. Until recently, returns on property have outperformed bank interest and the stock market. But that was then.

A LANDLORD who allowed a young family to live in dangerous conditions and was the first to be prosecuted in St.Helens under new laws has lost her appeal.

THREE Liverpool barristers “at the top of their profession� have been made QCs.

David Casement and Brian Cummings of Exchange Chambers and Stuart Driver of Atlantic Chambers will be sworn in at the Palace of Westminster in a ceremony on March 28.

A LEGAL team from Gregory Abrams Davidson are about to become radio stars thanks to their new role as experts on a new weekly show.

Company partners Victor Welsh and Christian Evans and head of marketing and business development Paul Knowles will be encouraging Liverpool to “think legal� as they answer listeners’ queries on the brand new talk radio station, City Talk 105.9, which launched yesterday.

Fiona Parry, a partner at Halliwells, on the continuing credit crunch

MANAGING a Modern Law Firm is the title of the next Liverpool Law Conference being held on February 5.

THE Law Society, the Association of Muslim Lawyers and the Bar Council will call on the Pakistani authorities for the release and reinstatement of lawyers and judges imprisoned in Pakistan following the recent constitutional crisis.

I AM sure there are a number of firms of solicitors who are breathing a sigh of relief following the employment tribunal decision in Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes, which has been reported recently. Although not binding on other tribunals it has given the first indication of how the tribunals will view the enforced retirement of partners in solicitors firms.

IN what psychologists consider to be the most depressing week of the year, international recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark’s latest quarterly Happiness At Work Index has revealed that one in five (21%) British office workers, which equates to 6.1 million people, are unhappy at work.