CityEditorial


The days are finally getting longer, and we seem to be enjoying a lull in the relentless rain that has drenched the City. We have used the time to wade through several legal reviews of 2013, and a few previews of legal activity in 2014. The immediate future of City Solicitor is most exciting. We have been hinting at change for some time now, and 2014 is the year in which it will happen. Just like Spring, a new format is just around the corner. Over the past year, your Editorial Board, supported by a working party of committed members of the Company and the Committee, has been working towards a City Solicitor with a brand new and significantly improved look and feel. As the welcoming fanfare is rehearsed, and without wishing to mix too many metaphors, we invite you to watch this space and to assure you that all will be revealed shortly.


In this edition, however, we carry the usual Committee reports, with our usual expression of gratitude to Committee Chairmen


their sterling efforts to record so faithfully the proceedings of their Committees. The aggregate reports of each Committee are a significant record of developments in that field of law. We are indeed privileged to have this resource at our disposal.


This edition is heavy on the celebration of the new Lord Mayor, our own Junior Warden, Alderman


Clerk to the Company & Secretary of the City of London Law Society


Neil Cameron 4 College Hill, London EC4R 2RB Tel +44 20 7329 2173 Fax +44 20 7329 2190 mail@citysolicitors.org.uk


EDITORIAL BOARD


Fiona Woolf. At City Solicitor, we are delighted to be able to support her during her year in office, and will do so at every opportunity.


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Although Fox strives to have the last word in every edition, this time it’s my turn. As editor of City Solicitor for more years than I can remember, I wish to thank the Court and the Committee most sincerely for their joint support of our progress to the next stage in our development. We have no doubt that you, our readers, will approve.


Until later.


John Abramson 4 College Hill, London EC4R 2RB Tel +44 20 7329 2173 Fax +44 20 7329 2190 mail@citysolicitors.org.uk


Elizabeth Thomas 4 College Hill, London EC4R 2RB Tel +44 20 7329 2173 Fax +44 20 7329 2190 mail@citysolicitors.org.uk


John Abramson, Editor, City of London Law Society – Committee Members


President The Master


Chairman A.F. Douglas


Chief Executive D. Hobart


Secretary N.A. Cameron


Administrator Mrs E.J. Thomas, B.A.


Policy & Committees Co-ordinator R.S. Leeder


Committee CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT † P. Barnes † R.H.G. Bourns † S.W. Davis † C. Digby-Bell M.T.C. Hanson N.M.L. Hughes Ms V.J. Knapp, O.B.E. C.D.Z. Martin


† Miss C. McConnell C.M. Medvei A.G. Murray-Jones C. Passmore R. Pitcher R.H. Tyler


City of London Solicitors’ Company – Court of Assistants Master


D.A.McIntosh, QC (Hon)


Senior Warden Alderman V.T. Keaveny


Junior Warden Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Fiona Woolf


Stewards Dame Janet Gaymer, QC (Hon), D.B.E. N.M.L. Hughes


Full Assistants Past Master Ms A.L. Marks Past Master Sir David Lewis Past Master Alderman Sir David Wootton Past Master J.R.C. White, T.D. Past Master M.C. Roberts, B.A. J.M. Abramson R.J.L. Jones Alderman D. Graves J.P. Wotton R.S.K. Bell N. Logan Green


† Ex-officio as members of the Council of The Law Society


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Chairman of CLLS A.F. Douglas


Additional Assistants C. Medvei J.T. Young T.E. Watts


Ex-Officio Assistants Past Masters P.J. Purton, O.B.E., L.M.R.T.P.I. D.F. Gray, M.A. E.P.T. Roney, C.B.E.,M.A. Sir Max Williams K.S.G. Hinde, O.B.E., T.D.,M.A. J.A.E. Young, LL.B. D.L. Biddle, M.A. J.A. Rowson Sir Christopher Walford, M.A., D.C.L. His Hon. Harvey Crush S.N. Beare, M.A., LL.B. W.L. King, M.A. R.D. Fox, M.A. M.R. Mathews, M.A. Sir Robert Finch M.J. Cassidy, C.B.E., B.A.,M.B.A., Dep. J.E. Hume B.J. Greenwood, LL.B. A.J.C. Collett, LL.B.


N.C.C. Bamping, LL.B. Miss K.D. Richardson, M.A. W.J.L. Knight, O.B.E.


Clerk N.A. Cameron


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