The first shows were attended by a few friends whom Moir had invited to see his performance, one of whom brought solicitor Bob Mortimer along with him.

Wintle made legal history when he brought a legal action against a dishonest solicitor named Nye, whom he accused of appropriating £ 44, 000 from the estate of Wintle's deceased cousin.

Leighton Samuel brought in his solicitor, David Thompson, as Chief Executive of the Club to oversee the application for Super League.

In non-personal injury claims, for instance, a claim for professional negligence against solicitors, the measure of damages will be assessed by the loss suffered by the client due to the negligent act or omission by the solicitor giving rise to the loss.

Financial losses are usually simple to quantify but in complex cases which involve loss of pension entitlements and future loss projections, the instructing solicitor will usually employ a specialist expert actuary or accountant to assist with the quantification of the loss.

Grundy's daughter, lawyer Angela Woodruff, became concerned when solicitor Brian Burgess informed her that a will had been made, apparently by her mother.

When in court, a solicitor will normally wear a suit and tie together with a Scottish bar gown ( a form of black robe ).

On 1 May Nash's solicitor John Wittet Lyon was summonsed to East Cowes Castle to finalise his will.

Not only does the will name Boyes as the principal heir, but in Urquhart's office, Miss Murchison finds evidence that, misusing his position as his own family's solicitor, Urquhart embezzled the majority of the great aunt's holdings and subsequently lost them on the stock market.

If the bill is reduced by one fifth or more the solicitor will pay for the process of assessment, but otherwise the client will pay.

The seller's solicitor or conveyancer will prepare the draft contract to be approved by the buyer's solicitor.

The seller's solicitor will also collect and prepare property information to be provided to the buyer's solicitors, in line with the Law Society's National Protocol for domestic conveyancing.

When the local paper approached Coleman before they published this information he told them that " This has absolutely nothing to do with me, nothing whatsoever, and if you say otherwise you will be hearing from my solicitor.

An appointee who has practised in England and Wales now has to satisfy the judicial-appointment eligibility condition on a 7-year basis, while a practitioner from Scotland or Northern Ireland will need 7-years ' standing as barrister, advocate or solicitor.

Ten days later, on 13 March 1998, Coveney visited his solicitor to change his will.

Her solicitor thinks she will receive the minimum sentence of 18 months in jail ; the judge sentences her to two and a half years imprisonment ' as a deterrent to others '.

Should the seller attempt to accept a higher bid after the contracts have been legally finalised by a written offer and acceptance, their solicitor will refuse to act for them as this, according to the Law Society of Scotland code of practice, would be professional misconduct.

The usual form of this agreement is that the solicitor will take a law case on the understanding that if lost, no payment is made.

The solicitor will be able to identify if a client holds this type of policy and complete the necessary claim form.

* White v Jones 2 AC 207 ; In this case, which was only carried by a 3: 2 majority, a solicitor was told to draw up a new will, splitting the testator's estate between the two plaintiffs, his daughters.

After a second stroke, she asks Elinor to ask the family solicitor to prepare a will under which it is clear that Mary is to be a beneficiary.

Miss Marple makes a quick trip to Somerset House ( something about marriages ) and ask Conway to tell Mark and Adelaide that he is leaving the money to a hostel for young dancers in London, and that he will visit a solicitor to finalize the details tomorrow.

A minority of cases are prosecuted by other law enforcement agencies, such as HM Revenue and Customs, the Department for Work and Pensions or the Health and Safety Executive, or private prosecutors such as the RSPCA, and in such cases a solicitor or barrister will attend especially to prosecute.

In most magistrates ' courts there will be a duty solicitor available to advise and possibly to represent any defendant who does not have his / her own solicitor.

Before entering parliament in 2005, Khan was a leading human rights solicitor.

In the general election, he defeated Republican nominee John E. Jones III, a local government solicitor, 52 %- 48 %.

Kermit Roosevelt III has argued that " in practice ' activist ' turns out to be little more than a rhetorically charged shorthand for decisions the speaker disagrees with "; likewise, the solicitor general under George W. Bush, Theodore Olson, said in an interview on Fox News Sunday, in regards to a case for same-sex marriage he had successfully litigated, that " most people use the term ' judicial activism ' to explain decisions that they don't like.

In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead.

On 11 June 1887 he married Clara Ripley ( 1856 / 7 – 1917 ), daughter of Walter Freake Pratt, a solicitor from Bath.

Yet, despite these apparent differences, notarial practice is universally considered to be distinct and separate from that of attorney ( solicitor / barrister ).

Reed became city solicitor of Portland 1874 – 1877, before being elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses, serving from 1877, to September 4, 1899, when he resigned.

The largest cut was the removal of the character of Mr. Gribsby, a solicitor who comes from London to arrest the profligate " Ernest " ( i. e., Jack ) for his unpaid dining bills.

His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor ; his mother, Augusta Smith from a long line of Sussex plumbers, died young when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older sister Gwen.

Lipstadt hired the British solicitor Anthony Julius to present her case, while Penguin Books hired Kevin Bays and Mark Bateman, libel specialist from media firm Davenport Lyons.

The unit however was eager to become more active and from an early stage plotted to kill solicitor Pat Finucane although the plan was initially vetoed by the brigade leadership.

Maria's father, Charles Bicknell, a solicitor, was reluctant to see Maria throw away this inheritance, and Maria herself pointed out that a penniless marriage would detract from any chances John had of making a career in painting.

In 2011 ( due to recent news stories revolving around celebrities taking out super injunctions in an attempt to protect themselves from scandal ), Roger goes to his crooked solicitor attempting to silence his ex-wife from releasing a book about their violent marriage which also details Roger's ' questionable ' hobbies.

Having returned from a holiday in North Wales in better health, Boyes dined with his cousin, the solicitor Norman Urquhart, before going to Harriet's flat to discuss reconciliation.

His parents were Charles Elton Halliley, a solicitor, and Amy Michelle ( née Le Mesurier ), whose family were from Alderney in the Channel Islands ; both families were affluent with histories of government service, or work in the legal profession.

Elegant and witty, she was regarded by audiences as the epitome of the British aristocracy ( although her title actually came from the fact that her solicitor husband had been knighted ; the incorrect form Lady Isobel Barnett suggested she possessed a courtesy title, but she was not an aristocrat, nor had she married into the aristocracy ).

He became a solicitor, and on his retirement from practice in 1840, devoted himself to the study of legal antiquities.

* In 1988 the parents of actor David Scarboro who played Mark Fowler in BBC's Eastenders commenced liable proceedings with solicitor Michael Shelton due to the hounding of David whilst he suffered from mental illness.

Crean noticed that Ahern was in trouble and together with a young solicitor named Leachman from Dundrum, he managed to bring him ashore.

Also present were Joseph Ryan, a local solicitor, John McKay, a journalist from Belfast, and St. George McCarthy, a District Inspector of the RIC in Templemore.

Since Whitehouse had not herself seen the play, the prosecution evidence rested on the testimony of her solicitor, Graham Ross-Cornes, who claimed he saw the actor's penis, but had seen the play from the back row of the stalls 90 feet from the stage.

* Solicitor's lien — the right of a solicitor to recover his costs from a client.

The Criminal Justice Act 2006 also affects the right to silence, in that it permits inferences to be drawn from silence where no solicitor is present.

Henman comes from a talented sporting family: his father Tony, a solicitor, was accomplished at various sports, including tennis and squash.

Robinson secured a permanent position as a result of scooping the details of the story of Brian Epstein's death from being a family friend of the Liverpool solicitor handling the legalities, offering him a ride to Euston station when he could not find an available taxi.