All Feature articles – Page 124
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FeatureRisk and compliance conference: Brexit ‘plan B’ vital, Blacklaws tells firms
Law firms whose bottom line may be affected by Brexit must have a ‘plan B’ to reassure regulators they are preparing for the fallout.
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FeatureRisk and compliance conference: ‘Get your millennials involved in media strategies’
Millennials for whom the use of technology is almost an unconscious reflex must be in the sights of firms drawing up and revising social media and marketing policies.
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FeatureRisk and compliance conference: Don’t leave ethics to compliance officers, leading risk expert warns
Francis Dingwall warned 300 fellow solicitors gathered for this year’s Law Society Risk and Compliance conference not to ‘contract out’ ethical issues to compliance officers acting in isolation.
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FeatureDeveloping picture
Solicitors no longer have to count their CPD hours. Grania Langdon-Down reports on how this is affecting training and shaping the market for providers
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FeaturePrivacy and financial remedy proceedings
Ryan Giggs, in his divorce from Stacey Giggs, is the latest high-profile individual to seek press reporting restrictions in respect of financial remedy proceedings in the family court.
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FeatureSociety spotlight: Mentoring scheme
As the Law Society’s mentoring scheme opens to new applications, Eduardo Reyes looks at different models and their benefits
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FeatureSchools monitoring student internet use
Are students and their parents aware that schools are monitoring online activities even when at home?
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FeatureMIB gears up for new untraced drivers agreement
Motor Insurers Bureau updates agreement for accidents involving untraced drivers, including ‘hit and runs’ and motorcyclists losing control due to diesel spills.
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FeatureTestamentary freedom – Ilott v The Blue Cross and others
Judgment finally lays to rest this extraordinarily long-running litigation saga.
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FeatureEmployee ownership: stake holders
Law firms slow to embrace employee ownership schemes are missing a trick.
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FeatureSettlement conferences
I was apprehensive about settlement conferences for public law cases, but a pilot scheme in Devon has made me rethink.
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FeatureRights of audience rules
How do two recent judgments affect barristers acting as solicitor’s agents?
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FeatureMental capacity: winners and losers
Law Commission report on Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty.
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FeatureLegal technology: the rise of the chatbots
Chatbots handling multiple interactions give a new dimension to customer care and access to justice
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FeatureCoq of the walk
Brexit looms and even ‘Frexit’ cannot be ruled out, but international law firms remain sanguine about doing business in France. Marialuisa Taddia reports
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FeatureDNA – an unstoppable march?
A new judgment broadens the principle of bringing cases on the basis of matching DNA alone.
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FeatureData page – March 2017
The latest data page figures, compiled by Moneyfacts, are now available.
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FeatureLaw Society spotlight: Social Mobility Ambassadors
Chancery Lane’s SMA project aims to inspire people from underprivileged backgrounds to embark upon a legal career.
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FeatureCivil procedure: discontinuing an arbitration claim
What happens if a party to arbitral proceedings decides to commence an arbitration claim in the High Court but subsequently files and serves a notice of discontinuance?
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FeatureRoundtable: litigation funding
Litigation funding is increasingly lauded as a model for modern litigation. But its role in boosting ‘access to justice’ is less clear cut, the Gazette’s latest roundtable heard.