Good commercial law makes good societies
None of the developments of the last millennium work without certainty of contract, property law, and clear redress to back any partnership, loan or enterprise.
Exception to the privilege rule
The iniquity exception to privilege can prove useful in a variety of litigation contexts.
Spousal maintenance
Disputes related to this are often the main bar to divorcing couples resolving financial disagreements. Recent comprehensive guidance aims to help.
Criminal defence: defiant ones
Criminal defence specialists are hurting and career prospects are bleak. But many retain the appetite to fight for a viable future.
Competence and assessment
Flexibility in how professional standards are met should be the cornerstone of training.
Courts saved by Skype?
Starting work on some of Leveson’s recommendations for the courts must be a priority.
Lofty ideals laid low
The way government has set about removing the law’s ‘height advantage’ is depressing.
Window on solicitors’ world
Firm shopfronts could be put to better use.
Everywhere and nowhere
Policymakers pay little heed to the technology that attends law reform.
Interventions: the innocent pay, too
When a partner misbehaves, everyone around them can be tarnished.
Endangered lawyers
As the legal revolution progresses, the danger is that the weakest and most abused clients will be pushed to the margins.
Chilcot approach crowds out the rule of law
The impression left by this protracted circus is that lawyers are there to protect the powerful and wealthy.
BOOK REVIEW: Court of Protection Handbook – a user’s guide
This handbook on embryonic new powers in the court is in a league of its own.
