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News

Compliance costs are hurting our businesses, solicitors say

17 May 2013

Quarter of aspiring lawyers ‘would have considered apprentice route’

17 May 2013

Grant postpones whiplash crackdown

17 May 2013

SRA axes genealogy service to relieve pressure on contact centre

16 May 2013

Quality of family experts must improve, says MoJ

16 May 2013

16 per cent of jurors believe they cannot use internet at all during trials

16 May 2013

PI | Digital Supplement

How are the Jackson reforms impacting on you? Read about challenges for RTA and clinical negligence and changes to costs in our PI Digital Supplement

Legal Services Act

Fees every five minutes in Law Society guide to unbundling

Advocates could be replaced by paralegals acting as McKenzie friends

Mixed response to Edmonds’ call for a single legal regulator

SRA not sufficiently focused on risk, LSB says

Legal Practice

View from the bench | ‘We will be thrilled  to see you’

District Judge Tacey Cronin promises a warm welcome for solicitors as the tide of litigants in person rolls in

Legal Profession

Complaints | Delay in reporting to a client

Eleanor Kilner shares what to do when client communication has fallen behind

Regulation

Retail therapy: customer service will make your firm stand out

Customer service - and evidence that you take it seriously - will be what makes your firm stand out, says John Thomas...

Management

Law

Enforcing squatters' human rights

Does the new law on criminal trespass have the potential for contravening a squatter's human rights? Sandra Clarke...

Property

Taking care: adaquate funding will be essential if the new Care Bill is to be effective

Adequate funding will be essential to meeting the ambitious objectives of the new Care Bill, says Joanne Clement

Private Client

Workshop | But do I need permission anyway?

Charles Mynors examines listed building consent and asks when your client really needs permission

Public

Regulatory watch | New cost concerns

We all know our clients' rights, but do we know our own? Susanna Heley asks what can be done about the growing...

Litigation

European briefing | A new approach to disability discrimination

Two new ECJ cases demonstrate that the court will adopt a broad approach to discrimination. Sickness itself is not a...

Employment

Update | Commercial property: TVG developments, quiet enjoyment, wind farm planning

Magnus Hassett looks at  recent case developments surrounding TVGs, the  meaning of quiet enjoyment  and wind farm...

Property

Update | Health and safety: effects of section 61, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill and the Deregulation Bill

The effects of section 61 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill and the Deregulation Bill on health and safety...

Personal Injury

Comment

Candour in the wind

The NHS's proposed duty to inform patients of a right to a remedy would be a step in...

The Liechtenstein disclosure facility is good for your clients

Heading down the wrong road

Living up to expectations

Quiz

Blogs

Editor's blog | Regulatory long grass

New that Chris Grayling has decided not to regulate will writing was met by disappointment, but a...

Case in point | The power of autonomy

Felix | Dangerous presumptions

Editor's blog | Lawyer eat lawyer

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