All Feature articles – Page 156
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FeatureBOOK REVIEW: Time Management Handbook for Lawyers – How-to Tactics That Really Work
I wanted to hate what I thought might be a brash American book.
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FeatureBOOK REVIEW: Advising and Representing Clients at Mediation
Every now and then a book is published for legal representatives that goes beyond a mere analysis of the law and technical guidance.
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FeatureChattels, fixtures and ‘acceding to the realty’
After reading the first chapter of any land law text book, lawyers are not often called upon to consider whether something is or is not a fixture.
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Data page - August 2013
The latest data page figures are now available – including mortgage rates and inflation.
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FeatureDBAs: greater need for expert early case assessment
It is crucial that prospective claimants get an ‘early case assessment’ of the potential scale of any settlement under Jackson’s new damages-based agreements.
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FeatureRelief from sanctions in costs budgeting
How the courts are dealing with applications for relief from sanctions imposed under Lord Justice Jackson’s new costs management rules?
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FeatureBOOK REVIEW: Islam and English Law Rights, Responsibilities and the Place of Shari’a
Having attended the book launch for this title at the grand Temple Church, I was curious as to how the authors would grapple with the difficult topic of Islam and English law.
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FeatureSet standards for wills
The Law Society has launched its first recognised quality standard for wills and estate administration
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FeatureScience of mixed results
Ian Evett and Sue Pope consider the issue of what may safely be put to the jury when it comes to complex DNA mixtures
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FeatureHow to: Outsource legal work
Legal process outsourcing has matured and evolved from the traditional offshore provider model
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FeatureDealing with closed courts
In Bank Mellat, the Supreme Court deployed a closed session for the first time. This is worrying for the future of justice, writes Kartik Mittal
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FeatureClaim forms and ‘good reason’
In Abela and others v Baadarani [2013] UKSC 44, the Supreme Court provided important guidance on the interpretation and application of rule 6.15(1) and (2)
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FeatureMediation: an acquired taste
Despite government plans to steer disputes into mediation, take-up has been slow
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Kinship foster carers’ allowances
What will be the impact of a landmark judgment on allowances for family foster carers? Fiona Scolding and Amelia Walker look at the case.
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FeatureCommercial property: in-house lawyers want more for less
With their own budgets under pressure, in-house lawyers are demanding more for less from commercial property lawyers
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FeatureImmigration: minimum salary requirement challenged
MM Javed & Majid v Secretary of State for the Home Department
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FeatureBaby buried in unmarked mass grave
Keith Etherington is acting for a bereaved couple who, 29 months after the death of their newborn daughter, discovered that her body had not been cremated as promised, but was in an overgrown and unmarked mass grave.
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FeatureHow public authorities should behave
Changes in the position of ‘intransigent and misleading public authority’
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FeatureApprenticeships: on the job
With entry into the legal profession becoming harder than ever, is it time for legal apprenticeships to move centre-stage?