Spring2012


Celebrate the City: four days in the Square Mile 21-24 June 2012


Over four days in June (Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 June), the City of London Corporation and the Diocese of London invite you to enjoy all the Square Mile has to offer: its magnificent architecture, its rich history and heritage, its must-see exhibitions - and plenty of special events and entertainment to boot.


For more information go to www.visitthecity.co.uk


The Legal Charities Garden Party 13th June 2012 6.00pm-8.00pm


The North Lawn Lincoln’s Inn


The Legal Charities Garden Party was founded by the Holborn Law Society (now the City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society) to fundraise for lawyers in need and their dependents. All proceeds go to six charities - they are SBA The Solicitors’ Charity, the Barristers’ Benevolent Association, the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks Benevolent Fund, the United Law Clerks’ Society, the Institute of Legal Executives Benevolent Fund and Law Care. Started in 1968, the Garden Party is a popular meeting place for judges, solicitors, barristers, barristers’ clerks and legal executives. Every year the Legal Charities Garden Party attracts around 1,500 guests. Enjoy an evening in the beautiful surroundings of Lincoln’s Inn, networking, catching up with old friends and perhaps meeting new ones! For more information and tickets visit www.lcgp.org.uk


For sponsorship opportunities at this years party please contact Melissa Davis, Director at MD Communications at melissa.davis@mdcomms.co.uk


Fox finds flaws (Cont. from back page)


Do you really need a seat fitted with electric controls, a memory and heating, cooling and massage functions? Certainly the German car manufacturers take the view that customers should have a great deal of flexibility. Modern computer techniques facilitate building a car to order.


In my opinion a rather different approach is appropriate to a large luxury car at the top end of the market. Because the cost to the consumer of a particular piece of equipment is much higher when offered as an option than when built in as standard, my strong preference is for the Lexus approach. A true luxury car has almost everything


specified as standard. Such is the length (and associated cost) of the options list for the Audi A8 that it would be possible to double the basic list price of the car (£57,000 for the petrol version, £59,500 for the diesel model) by ticking all the boxes. Incidentally the cost of optional equipment is rarely recovered when re-selling a car but in some cases a large car will be very difficult to sell unless the right optional equipment has been fitted.


Possibly I was expecting too much. Even the greatest cars have flaws. But I shall not be buying an Audi A8.


City Solicitor • Issue 77 • 15


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