A gifted girl from a council estate in a socially deprived area of Chester has been offered a place at the Queen’s private School (Chester). She currently attends her local primary school. Her parents are keen for their daughter to follow her dream, but are unable to find the £14,000 per year it would cost to cover school fees, uniform etc. If a solicitor’s company or a group of solicitors could fund the place, they would be giving this girl the opportunity to be the first in her family to…

Partners of Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm Stanislav Skrypnyck and Iryna Marushko attended a presentation of a feasibility study for the National Project «LNG-Terminal» conducted in Kyiv on March 30 by the State Agency for Investment and National Projects.

The feasibility study for the National Project «LNG-Terminal», a sea terminal for liquefied natural gas with a throughput capacity of 5 billion cubic meters per year, was developed by the Spanish company SOCOIN Ingenieria y…

Experts of Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm in March of 2012 successfully represented the interests of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih PJSC in the Administrative Court of Appeal in two cases seeking to cancel tax notices in the amount of nearly UAH 26 million.

Legal support for the project was provided by Lavrynovych & Partners lawyers Roman Blazhko and Dmytro Savchuk under the guidance of Partner Iryna Marushko.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih PJSC is Ukraine’s largest metallurgical…

With the news that the economic worth of activity on the Internet is set to spiral upward during the course of the next few years (indeed the web economy is set to double by 2016) we thought it might be an idea to give you a…

Will ‘extreme interview’ techniques be adopted by law firms?

There’s been a lot of chat lately about otherwise sensible organisations using bizarre interview questions. A popular one being: ‘If you were a dinosaur, what kind of dinosaur would you be?’ (In city circles at…

Asbestos is not a modern discovery. There is mention of a fire proof fibre as far back as the 5th Century BC and possible references to illnesses of the lung from about the same time. But it is fair to say that it was in the 20th Century that its use on an industrial basis really took off. Apparently a snow scene in the Wizard of Oz used white asbestos!

The real tragedy is that it is only now that we are seeing the real cost. Asbestos is known to cause serious lung disease…

Adrian Anderson, Partner and Head of the Corporate Department

1976 was the summer that went on for ever.

It started at the beginning of April and lasted until October of the same year. Warm sunny days every day – no rain. I had started my legal career as an…

In October 2008, Clare Wood ended her relationship with George Appleton. Her rejection sparked a campaign of abuse, resulting in her horrific murder four months later. Appleton had a history of violence against women, including harassment, threats and kidnapping a former girlfriend at knifepoint.

Despite a number of complaints to the police, resulting in a panic button being fitted in her home, this was not enough to save Clare. Her murder made clear that the treatment of domestic…

Stuart Page, Associate, Crime

One of the most difficult problems in law is getting the punishment to fit the crime so that the public will see it as not too soft but not too harsh.

Stories over the years of soft sentences for seemingly serious…

The new Quality Solicitors advertising campaign was triple lutzed into the middle of Dancing on Ice on Sunday evening.

If you had a subsequent engagement or an aversion to the erstwhile Bristolian accent of Robin Cousins and missed it you can see for yourself here…

Paula Bridge, Head of Medical Negligence

People who have made the enormous decision to have cosmetic surgery often do it to improve their confidence and self…

Those of us in the legal marketing sector who were dedicated enough to sit through ITV’s ever-tawdry Dancing On Ice Final on Sunday night were treated to some heart-rendering vocals from Rachel K Collier to a backdrop of emotionally charged scenes during one of the breaks. The London-based Welsh singer/song…

A report has recently been issued by the UKs Transport Select Committee in relation to the rising cost of motor insurance.  This report comes on the back of a recent campaign by former Home, Foreign and Justice Secretary, Jack Straw.  The conclusions of this call for “sharp practices” to come an end and the Committee “look to the insurance industry to start showing ... leadership”. 

Much debate has taken place about the relative ease in which individuals obtain compensation…

A new poll conducted by Quinn Wilson Associates at this month’s Law London produced results suggesting that law firms could be doing a lot more to promote themselves online but that many have at least started to take advantage of the opportunities this new media affords…

Maksym Lavrynovych, Managing Partner of Lavrynovych & Partners Law Firm, delivered a speech entitled «Work performed by an advocate in preparing acceptance of complaints to the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Common Mistakes» at the First All-Ukrainian Civil Forum of the Ukrainian Advocates’ Association held in Kyiv on March 23.

In his speech, Maksym Lavrynovych identified the main reasons for refusal to accept a decision of cassation instance court for revision by the Supreme Court of…

When you are caught red handed and you are behind bars with a law suit against you under the DWI, you have very little to do against the whole thing but, there is a chance for you to avoid life behind bars if you are ready for Probation. Probation is a kind of a mutual agreement between you and the judge who will demand a few Do’s and Don’ts from you in exchange for a jail sentence. This is one of the safest ways to get away from an unbreakable jail sentence that will affect…

It won't have escaped any practitioners attention is that there has been an inexorable move towards fixed fee arrangements. Generally speaking this has not been a development that has been enthusiastically embraced by the profession. Rather, it has tended to be driven by clients motivated by dissatisfaction with and distrust of the hourly rate regime coupled with a desire for greater cost certainty and manageability.

Conversely, many in the profession do not like being put on the spot…

This question comes up time and again with Solicitors - If I have a bad review or rating on-line - what can or should I do? Almost every solicitor has experienced a client with unreasonable expectations, or a customer who got bad results because of their own behaviour or facts. For example many people over the years have claimed that they have been cheated in their divorce settlement because their solicitor wasn't up to the job. The difference today is that these views can be posted on-line…

Batchelors' new mobile website (built using the LegalRSS mobile website generator) is now live at http://shl.legalrss.co.uk.



It needs content added, but is working nicely. It is compatibale with all mobile touchscreen devices. Batchelors have the sole UK rights to the LegalRSS Social Housing newsfeed, which, mixed with their own content, will power the news section of the mobile site through a single control panel which also…

The UK’s only intellectual property advisory service tailored to the needs of the creative sector, Own-it, has announced it is expanding its service to Manchester.



The pro bono initiative, which helps creative practitioners and small and medium-sized creative businesses access intellectual property advice…