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11 June 2009
Issue: 7373 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Creative solutions for the Bar

News in brief

Bar chairman Desmond Browne QC has called for creative solutions to the financial uncertainties facing the publicly funded Bar. Addressing the annual conference of the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks (IBC), Browne praised clerks and practice managers for their constructive thinking, and invited them to consider direct access and block contracting as possible solutions to the issue of access to legal representation.

Issue: 7373 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde & Co—Suriya Ashok

Clyde Co strengthens energy transition and construction offering with hire of Suriya Ashok

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit—Nicole Gallop Mildon

Jurit appoints rare dual-qualified lawyer to expand Anglo-French private wealth expertise

NEWS
The Financial Reporting Council’s revised Audit Enforcement Procedure will alter the balance of power in corporate investigations
A telecoms operator may be able to hold over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, yet still be unable to secure a renewal: an outcome described as a legal ‘paradox’

Safety fears do not automatically justify shutting an interested person out of a statutory will application

Consumer credit law is heading for its biggest shake-up in 50 years, with the Consumer Credit Act 1974 set to yield much of its detailed statutory machinery to FCA rules
The Supreme Court has settled a long-running dispute over part-time workers: unfavourable treatment need be a significant or effective cause, not the sole cause
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