Profiles
Lord Bingham: An Appreciation
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, who died in September 2010, possessed intellectual qualities of a rare kind, writes Lord Justice Sedley
No reader of Counsel needs to be reminded of the remarkable career trajectory of Tom Bingham, from Queen’s Bench judge and Lord Justice of Appeal through the offices of Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice to the (anomalously inferior) post of Senior Law Lord. What may have been forgotten is that the last of these posts was created for him by Derry Irvine.
Felicity Toube
Position: Barrister
Chambers: 3-4 South Square
You’ve worked on all the leading cross-border insolvency cases. Which ones have engaged you the most?
I really enjoy legally and factually difficult cases and I’m as happy to work for a large client as for a smaller client. Recent cases of particular interest include Stanford (the first case on the Cross Border Insolvency Regulation) for the US receiver against the Antiguan liquidators. The interaction between the two sets of office holders caused a lot of difficulty.
The Wizard of the Family Bar
Chris McWatters believes that the FLBA Chairman will need all his diplomatic wizardry to deal with the fizzing brew of change facing the Family Bar
Julie Cave
Name: Julie Cave
Position: Managing Director
Company: Credit Management (Law) Ltd
An Expert Eye
Richard Jones QC meets the President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Professor Terence Stephenson
Law in Action
David Wurtzel meets Dominic Grieve QC MP
While his colleagues have been emphasising how different they will be from the Labour Minister who came before them, the new Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, prefers to see the development of the law officers’ role as “seamless”. When we met in his Victoria Street office in late July, he explained that he looked back to his Tory predecessors, Patrick Mayhew and Nicholas Lyell.
The Chief Ombudsman
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David Wurtzel meets Adam Sampson, the Chief Ombudsman and Chief Executive of the Legal Ombudsman, the new scheme established by the Office of Legal Complaints to handle consumer legal complaints
Consistency & Confidence
Lord Justice Leveson explains the work of the new Sentencing Council
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