Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...When DLA Piper partner Jim Delkousis jumped ship from the law firm to set up a legal technology business in Melbourne, little did he know he was about to feel the “loneliest” he ever had....
...The judges were: Kerry Westland, head of innovation and legal tech at Addleshaw Goddard; Patrick Ryan, group head of legal at Capgemini; Jim Delkousis, chief executive of Persuit; Harriet Arnold, editor,...
...Without either bid, Westland would try to seek a rescue through taxpayers’ money, he added....
...Although Thatcher was between two election victories and able to trumpet a revived economy, unemployment was stuck at well above 3m while the Westland affair and the embryonic poll tax were sowing the seeds...
...Additional reporting by Jim Pickard...
...The Tory peer resigned as defence secretary in 1986 after his attempts to guide Westland into a European consortium were thwarted by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who preferred to see a US buyer...
...Hoon was in charge of the MoD in 2005 when it awarded a £1bn contract to Westland to buy “Future Lynx” choppers, an agreement that saved thousands of British jobs....
...David Laws, the Yeovil MP, had lobbied for the Westland loan in the run-up to the election in his capacity as a constituency MP....
...He was trade and industry secretary in the 1980s, until he resigned in 1986 over the Westland affair. Also he knows huge amounts about trade, having been European Commissioner for Trade at one point....
...As Leon Brittan he rose to prominence as trade and industry secretary under Margaret Thatcher, resigning in 1986 over the Westland affair....
...January 24 1986 – Leon Brittan quits over the Westland affair. January 24 2001 – Peter Mandelson resigns – again – this time over the Hinduja passport business....
...Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, chief executive of Finmeccanica, the Italian defence group that owns Westland Helicopters in the UK, said recently he would like to buy more British companies....
International Edition