The Legal 500

Legal Developments in the UK

• Boult Wade Tennant partner to speak at Management Forum’s Trademark Administrator conference

  Felicity Hide, a partner in Boult Wade Tennant’s Trade Mark and Domain Name Group, will be speaking at the Management Forum’s Trademark Administrator conference on 28 October 2010 at the Rembrandt Hotel in London.
  - Boult Wade Tennant

• Mark Emery quoted in Guardian race discrimination article

  Why is a race discrimination case that the Crown Prosecution Service lost being dragged into a tenth year by the public body?
  - Bindmans LLP

• Campaigners acquitted of conspiracy to cause criminal damage

  Mike Schwarz of Bindmans LLP and Lydia Dagostino from Kellys Solicitors in Brighton represented campaigners who were tried at Lewes Crown Court sitting at Hove. They were acquitted of conspiracy to cause criminal damage at EDO MBM Technology Ltd (a company owned by ITT Integrated Structures), a business said to have supplied weapons components used during Israel's military activity in Gaza in January 2009.
  - Bindmans LLP

• Different legal defences, different outcomes for two environmentalist groups

  In 2008, six Greenpeace campaigners were acquitted for an action at Kingsnorth power station, whereas in the following year, 29 environmentalists were convicted after an action at DRAX power station.
  - Bindmans LLP

• CARTWRIGHT KING EXPANDS TEAM

  Leading Midlands law firm Cartwright King has made another addition to their expanding team.
  - Cartwright King

• CARTWRIGHT KING SPEAK AT CONFERENCE

  Richard Boucher, a director at leading Midlands law firm Cartwright King (which has an office in Nottingham, Derby, Leicester) has recently spoken at a national conference at Birmingham University.
  - Cartwright King

• BRIBERY ACT GETS POLITICAL BACKING

  The Bribery Act, which received Royal Assent earlier this year, increases the maximum prison term for offences of bribery to ten years and businesses are to be subject to unlimited fines.
  - Cartwright King

• CARTWIGHT KING OFFER ADVICE FOR CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES

  Under the Corporate Manslaughter law, that came into effect in April 2008, an organisation can be prosecuted for a fatal accident if the way its work is managed or organised by its senior management, causes a death and is in gross breach of its duties towards an employee or third party. In the past, unless a fatality was so serious that an individual who was a “controlling mind” of the company (usually a director) could be charged with criminal manslaughter, the company could not be pursued successfully for manslaughter and would be prosecuted for health & safety offences.
  - Cartwright King

• Defamation and confidence: three significant cases

  There have been several recent cases concerning the laws of confidence and defamation that address important procedural issues relevant to litigators practising in all spheres. This article discusses decisions by the Court of Appeal, a Queen’s Bench judge and a Master.
  - Schillings

• Adjudication: caught in the Act?

  Anyone not involved in what might be regarded as the mainstream of the construction industry (whether as a building contractor or someone who regularly employs one) would be forgiven for thinking that a dispute resolution procedure introduced to rid the industry of some of its historical problems is of no relevance to their business.
  - Bond Pearce LLP