Dealing with jargon
Industry-specific buzzwords and acronyms can complicate cases for solicitors. Asking the right questions is paramount.
Dispute resolution: use of tiered clauses
A recent decision provides support for the validity of so-called escalation clauses.
Commercial property: competition and use
What is the impact on lawyers of recent cases following changes to the 1998 Competition Act?
Fraud in PI law claims
The Law Commission’s retreat on fraud in personal injury is welcome, but raises troubling questions.
Roundtable: the IT crowd
Law firms are embracing cutting-edge technology to improve efficiency and provide services that meet client expectations.
Legal aid at 65
Only the public can move access to justice up the political agenda.
HRA: thinking the ‘unthinkable’
Reshuffle reveals level of scheming against human rights.
Brand at a premium
With PII, it is in no one’s interest to go shopping as the prices and goods are changed.
Wonga: letters of the law
The token compensation Wonga must pay is wholly inadequate.
The health of the legal system
Trials highlight problems of funding and representation.
Passports, please: diplomatically declaring war
Are we commemorating the centenary of something that never formally occurred?
Happy 65th birthday, legal aid
Plans to cut legal aid in other European states echo reforms in the UK. But protests abound.
Why guideline rates reform was doomed
Lord Dyson shows zero tolerance for far-reaching reform based on poor evidence gathered with insufficient funding.
Court reforms are urgent
An innovative drug and alcohol project shows the courts need a bigger role in tackling social problems.
Call time on the law officers and lord chancellor
If the positions have become ceremonial and are not held by senior lawyers, is it time to abolish them?
BOOK REVIEW: Costs & Fees Encyclopaedia (2014-2015 edition)
A useful collection of materials, sorted by subject, but without commentary or explanation.
