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Bristol law firm Simpson Millar has become the first UK business to achieve the Diversity in Business Accreditation (Excellence) from the EW Group. To gain this independent stamp of approval,...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bristol-law-firm-achieves-uk-first-for-equality-and-diversity/
The Bristol Courts in the early 18th Century heard many a different case than in these days and punishments were somewhat different too. The Gazette reported that on 20th March...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/justice-in-the-early-18th-century/
Bristol Law Society is the oldest local Law Society and indeed was founded before the national Law Society. On 19th October 1770, 18 solicitors and attorneys-at-law met in the Bush...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/the-founding-of-bristol-law-society-in-1770/
Following his recent visit to Bristol, Law Society John Wotton remarked on the excellence of Bristol as a legal centre, describing it as “a very forward-looking, innovative and competitive legal...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bristol-a-very-forward-looking-innovative-and-competitive-legal-market/
Michael Gupwell of Gregg Latchams is a Notary Public. In this article, he draws back the veil of secrecy and introduces the role of a Notary. Notaries public are a...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/a-notarys-life-for-me/
Bristol Law Society and UWE have launched a joint 2012 work placement scheme exclusively for UWE Legal Practice Course students. UWE’s LPC students will again be placed with firms in...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bristol-law-society-and-uwe-set-up-placement-scheme/
The year 2012 is not just the year of the London Olympic Games and doom-saying Mayan prophecies, it also marks the 250th anniversary of a law firm with a strong...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/the-history-of-dac-beachcroft/
Legal Life is now a monthly e-zine and although BLS was founded in 1770, it was not until 1975 that the first monthly newsletter was published. Typed and mimeographed, the...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/first-bristol-law-society-newsletter/
This month, Bristol Law Society President Nick Dell reflects on the role of the legal profession in this day and age. The bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens took...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/angels-and-demons/
Simmons & Simmons has announced plans to open an office in Bristol in Autumn 2012. The office will support the firm in undertaking complex, high value work for clients in...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/simmons-and-simmons-to-open-bristol-office/
In the London Gazette for October 1871, there is a notice calling a second meeting of creditors in the bankruptcy of Joseph Augustus Bullock, licensed victualler of the Golden Lion...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/fireworks-and-fakers/
BLS members with an interest in legal history and lovers of the macabre may like to visit the ruins of Bristol’s New Gaol which can be found on the Cumberland...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/the-new-gaol/
Bristol Law Society understands that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has intervened to close down Bristol firm, Bevans Bray Walker Limited which traded as Bevans Solicitors, Hugh Feeny or as Stephen...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/local-firm-bevans-bevan-bray-walker-limited-closes/
BLS PRESIDENT BRANDS SRA DECISION ON TRAINING CONTRACT SALARIES “A BACKWARD STEP FOR THE PROFESSION”
Nick Dell, President of Bristol Law Society and Partner at Pardoes, has reacted angrily to the SRA announcement that it is scrapping the minimum salary for training contracts. In a...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bls-president-brands-sra-decision-on-training-contract-salaries-a-backward-step-for-the-professions/
Nick Dell, Bristol Law Society President, is pictured here following the Olympic Torch Relay in Taunton. With the good weather, the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics on the horizon, why...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bls-president-lights-the-way/
Bristol Law Society and the BBC in Bristol invite you to a preview screening of ‘The Strange Case of the Law’, a forthcoming new BBC Bristol Factual series for BBC...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/new-bbc-tv-series-on-story-of-justice-premieres-for-bls-members/
In the late 19th Century, Solicitors were prosperous in Bristol and many of them became men of affairs. Lewis Fry (Bristol Law Society President in 1878), the grandson of the...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/lewis-fry/
Legal Life is delighted to be able to publish the reminiscences of Fred Yeo who was a partner with Sibley Clough and Gibb. Fred entered articles 70 years ago and...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/reminiscences-of-a-wartime-articled-clerk/
As we move into August we can hopefully now enjoy a well deserved holiday. But for those of us not taking a summer break, we will at least able to...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/presidents-piece-olympic-edition/
BLS is delighted to welcome another new firm opening in Bristol, and this time we are delighted that it is our very own BLS Council member, Ashley Palminteri who has...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/welcome-to-the-family-law-practice/
Two of the remarkable Solicitors in Bristol’s legal history are sisters Angela and Joan Tuckett. Joan was the elder sister, born in 1895, whilst Angela was born in 1906. It...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/angela-and-joan-tuckett/
If you drive to the Old Market roundabout at the end of West Street, you cannot fail to notice the Stag and Hounds Pub on the corner, overlooking the underpass...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/the-court-of-pie-poudre/
First held in 1775, the Bristol Law Society Annual Dinner is one of the most prestigious events in the Bristol legal and social calendar. This year the Annual Dinner, presided...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/excitement-mounts-for-annual-dinner/
At the glittering Bristol Law Society Annual Awards Dinner held at the Bristol Marriott City Centre Hotel, President Nick Dell saw the presentation to awards in the following categories:- Law...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/and-the-winners-are/
One of the highlights of BLS’s calendar this year will be our inaugural event, Presentation to the New Qualified Solicitors, which was held at the start of Legal Week on...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/newly-qualified-solicitor-event-one-of-highlights-of-the-year/
Retiring President of Bristol Law Society, Nick Dell, gave the report of Council to a packed 142nd Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 28th November. Nick Dell reported that it had...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/annual-general-meeting-nick-dells-review-of-the-year/
Ashley Palminteri of The Family Law Practice was voted in as President of Bristol Law Society at ythe 142nd AGM, held in the Law Library on Wednesdya 28th November. Ashley...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/ashley-palminteri-elected-as-new-bls-president/
Nigel Puddicombe, partner at leading law firm Veale Wasbrough Vizards (VWV), has been elected Master of the Guild of Guardians, the not-for-profit body that works to improve the quality of...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/past-president-of-bls-is-bristols-new-master-of-the-guild-of-guardians/
May I welcome everybody back and hope that you had an enjoyable break. The last few years have been very difficult for many practitioners and firms alike and 2013 looks...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/new-year-welcome-from-bls-president/
Jordans will be celebrating their 150th anniversary this year and to mark this occasion, they are looking to raise £150,000 for nominated charities including the Bristol Childrens Hospital (The Grand Appeal). As...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/jordans-legal-publishers-celebrate-their-150th-anniversary/
With the recent announcement from the Bar Council about the change in the new terms of appointment for Counsel, Tom Smith of Plymouth Law School looks at the cab-rank rule....
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/the-death-of-the-cab-rank-rule-a-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing/
The 1989 annual dinner of the Bristol Law Society was held at the Grand Hotel, Bristol, on 17 November. The then president of the society, William Nicks, had as his...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/looking-back-at-the-1989-annual-dinner/
BLS Treasurer Rupert Scrase is a busy man. Not only does he look after the money at Bristol Law Society, but he runs his own specialist firm, Scrase Employment Solicitors,...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/rupert-scrase-now-vice-chair-of-sole-practitioners-group/
It has been a busy couple of months since the New Year. I have taken time to speak with many of the firms around Bristol and would like to take...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bls-president-ashley-palminteris-round-up/
Up to 1st May 1836 there were two coroners in Bristol. On the 1st May 1836 J.B. Grindon was elected sole coroner of Bristol under the Reform Act and his...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/19th-century-coroners-practice-in-bristol/
Welcome again to this month’s roundup of events and happenings at Bristol Law Society. As always, there is quite a lot going on! New Partners and Associates It’s that time...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bls-president-ashley-palminteris-round-up-for-may/
TLT’s Senior Partner Robert Bourns has been appointed to the Management Board of the Law Society in England & Wales following a contested election. The Management Board is one of...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/former-bls-president-robert-bourns-elected-to-law-society-management-board/
Legal professionals are the most loyal to their existing employers, according to the Robert Walters Career Lifestyle Survey. The research reveals that almost seven in ten (68%) believe they should...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/legal-professionals-the-most-loyal-to-their-employers-in-the-uk/
A ComRes poll, commissioned by the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, today shows that seven out of ten (71%) of the British public are concerned that...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/poll-results-show-public-fear-over-legal-aid-cuts/
The BLS recruitment service which re-launched in April has got off to a very encouraging start. Helen Read, Recruitment Manager, delighted with the response from local firms seeking recruitment advice...
https://www.bristollawsociety.com/news/bls-new-recruitment-service-welcomed-enthusiastically-by-local-firms/
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