All Feature articles – Page 2
View all stories of the same content type.
-
-
Feature
Public law challenges: What happened next
Seminal public law challenges disappear from the media radar after final judgment is handed down. What happens next is not always what one would expect.
-
Feature
Interim injunctions against persons unknown
As George Harrison once sang: ‘All things must pass.’
-
Feature
Coronavirus Q&A: Courts and access to justice
Common questions answered about how Covid-19 has affected courts and access to justice.
-
Feature
Personal protective equipment and the law
Supply of PPE to employees exposed to risk is not merely a matter of good practice. It is a longstanding legal duty.
-
Feature
Legal engineer
In the first of a new series on alternative legal careers, Katharine Freeland looks at legal engineers and the skills needed to thrive in this increasingly important role
-
Feature
SDT decisions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
-
Feature
Crash test
Covid-19 has prompted unprecedented collaboration between personal injury claimant lawyers and the insurance sector. Could this new spirit of co-operation survive the pandemic?
-
Feature
Comply with ADR duty or risk costs sanction
The recent decision of DSN v Blackpool Football Club Limited [2020] EWHC 670 (QB) illustrates the need for litigating parties to consider and engage with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures in trying to resolve their disputes.
-
Feature
Catching Covid-19 and running my practice
For the first time in my professional life, I had to cancel meetings. I had never done that. Ever.
-
-
Feature
Coronavirus Q&A: Changes to housing eviction notices
Coronavirus Act amends sections under the Housing Acts 1985, 1988 and 1996, as well as the Rent Act 1977.
-
Feature
Fixed penalty notice for breach of lockdown: notifying the SRA
Ordinarily the regulator is not overly interested in fixed penalty notices. But these are not ordinary times.
-
Feature
Shutting up shop
The impact of lockdown on commercial real estate and the sector’s legal advisers will be profound.
-
Feature
Past in the present
Three decades separate the onset of Alexandra Marks’ and Charlotte Parkinson’s legal careers. What could they possibly have to say to each other? Quite a lot, we discover.
-
Feature
A ‘setback’ for unexplained wealth orders
On 8 April, two prominent Kazakhstan citizens successfully persuaded the High Court to discharge three unexplained wealth orders (National Crime Agency v Baker and ors [2020] EWHC 822 (Admin)). The UWOs related to three London homes owned for the benefit of Nurali Aliyev and his Kazakh politician mother, Dariga ...
-
Feature
SDT decisions
Decisions filed recently with the Law Society (which may be subject to appeal).
-
Feature
Coronavirus Q&A: Family law
Common questions answered around family and children’s law during the Covid-19 outbreak.
-
Feature
The challenge for SME law firms in the Covid-19 era
Parliament is disproportionately full of former lawyers. They should understand the pressures the SME legal sector faces.
-
Feature
Coronavirus Q&A: Conveyancing and clients
Common client queries on ongoing residential property transactions with the latest Covid-19 guidance.
