June 2017
Dear Members,
The news just keeps coming...so here's a quick bulletin from us to keep you up to date! It's also another good opportunity to mention our Champagne Party. Did you hear...tickets are now on sale! Don't forget to get yours sorted, so that you too can sip champagne in the surrounds of the The Lawn in (hopefully) evening sunshine.
Events
Our main event of the year - the Champagne Party tickets! Tickets are now on sale! 7th July 2017, 6.30-8.30pm at The Lawn. Sponsored by Rickard Luckin. Contact Anne-Marie Rainsford at Jefferies for tickets. They are priced individually at £25 (trainees/their partners or spouses), £35 (members/their partners or spouses), £45 (non-members/their partner or spouses).
SEJLD - Masquerade boat party is being held on 19th August 2017. Welcome drinks rom 5.30pm and the boat party will finish at 11pm. RSVP by 31st July. Tickets are £30 each. Contact the SEJLD at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for tickets and more information.
Local Solicitor Update
Ivor Lee has passed away. Ivor was a partner first at Lee Flint in the High Street Southend then amalgamated with David Elman to become Elman Flint. Ivor was also a partner for many years with the enlarged firm of Jefferies. The funeral has already taken place.
Terence Hair of Hair & Son estate agents has also recently passed away. There will be a private cremation followed by a Service of Thanksgiving for Terence which will be at St Saviours Church (on the corner of Kings Road and Chadwick Road Westcliff ) at 11.30am on Friday 9th June. All local Solicitors are invited to this service and the reception afterwards at The Lawn.
Criminal
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) recently published revised operational guidance on the presence of an interviewee’s legal adviser at a section 2 interview (section 2 Criminal Justice Act 1987), addressed to interviewees and their lawyers.
Probate
The increase in probate fees is to be abandoned by the government. Law Society President Robert Bourns said: "This proposal would have affected 42% of estates and would have put pressure on families when they have just suffered a bereavement, so we are glad it is no longer going forward."
General
We do try and get everything right in this bulletin - but it is meant as an update only and we urge every member to make their own enquiries rather than rely definitively on something we've written. If you do require clarification, then feel free to email us and we'll be happy to try and help.
Committee Members
President – Andrew Hurrell; Vice-President – William Todman; Secretary - Liz Connolly; Treasurer - Aidan O'Donoghue; Immediate Past President: Jeffrey Conway; Conveyancing - Eddie Lee; Civil Litigation - Jerry Nathan; Criminal Litigation – vacant; Press& Public Relations – Mark Rothman; Parliamentary Liaison - Andrew Hurrell; Young Solicitors Representative – Anne-Marie Rainsford; Entertainment – Anne-Marie Rainsford; Education and Training – vacant; Regional Representative – Jack Dunkley; Law Society Council Member - Tony Fisher; Ordinary Members: Paul Fenton, Greg Hunter, George Kloosman, Keith Simpson.
To contact any member of the Committee, please contact the Secretary in the first instance (by replying to this email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.