The judge did, however, make the "gagging" order.Daniel Brennan QC, Brian Langstaff QC, Robin Oppenheim and Richard Hermer (instructed by Leigh, Day & Co) for the plaintiffs; Jonathan Playford QC, Andrew Prynne QC, Charles Gibson and Toby Riley-Smith (instructed by Ashurst Morris Crisp) for the first defendant; Justin Fenwick QC, Janet Turner QC and Tom Weitzman (instructed by Simmons & Simmons) for the second and third defendants.Lord Woolf MR said that there was no reason why the circumstances in which a lawyer acting under a CFA could be made personally liable for the costs of a party other than his client should differ from those in which a lawyer who was not acting under a CFA would be so liable.The plaintiffs' lawyers were in no different position than if they had been acting for a legally aided client with a nil contribution. Hodgson and others v Imperial Tobacco Ltd and others; Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Aldous and Lord Justice Chadwick) 12 February 1998 A lawyer acting under a conditional fee agreement was at no greater risk of being personally liable for the costs of an action than one acting under any other fee arrangement. Proceedings in chamber were not, generally, secret, and save in the exceptional cases where they were secret, disclosure of judgments or orders and comments on proceedings in chambers was not improper. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of the plaintiffs in litigation against cigarette manufacturing companies against the refusal of an order debarring the defendants from seeking an order that the plaintiffs' legal representatives be responsible for the costs of the action, but allowed the plaintiff's appeal against an order preventing the parties and their advisers from commenting to the media about the litigation without leave of the court.Approximately 43 plaintiffs claimed damages from the defendants, alleging that the cancer from which they suffered was caused by smoking cigarettes. On his return a year later he became the editor of From Our Own Correspondent.He retired in March 1974 but was engaged for a further two years in a Reuters/Press Association post.Leonard MiallRoger Lazar, radio journalist: born Paris 4 March 1914; Editor, From Our Own Correspondent, BBC 1961-74; married Louise Duffell (marriage dissolved), 1939 Dorothy Quait (marriage dissolved), 1961 Marie Cremona (one son, one daughter); died London 13 February 1998.. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the London Auxiliary Fire Brigade He was invalided out with a back injury in 1941. He then joined the BBC Monitoring Service in Evesham as a sub- editor.Lazar was transferred to Bush House and rapidly rose in the European Service's news hierarchy.
In 1948 he moved over to the foreign side of domestic radio news, becoming a Foreign Duty Editor. He was seconded to Nigeria in 1959 to give the newly independent Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation help in setting up a news service. Matthews (died 1991; marriage dissolved 1963); died London 15 February 1998.. "FROM Our Own Correspondent" was an expression coined in the 19th century by the newspapers. When the BBC established its own group of foreign and domestic reporters, at the end of the Second World War, it was adopted as a programme title. It was first used, from October 1946 to June 1949, in the new Third Programme.
It was then a series of 15-minute talks which gave us, in that first corps of BBC foreign correspondents, an opportunity to consider in depth the problems of the country to which we were assigned. Six years later the Home Service, as Radio 4 was then called, revived the title for a new Sunday morning series of five-minute contributions which began on 25 September 1955 and continues to this day on the World Service. From Our Own Correspondent owes its reputation to Roger Lazar. He was not its first editor, but through his skill at briefing correspondents overseas and his fund of ideas for foreign coverage he established the programme as essential listening for all interested in international developments.
