Features – Page 74
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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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FeatureStaff wellbeing: fit for purpose
Legal employers are investing heavily in staff wellbeing to boost productivity and retain talent
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FeatureHow to: be cyber secure
Ken McCallum explains what law firms must do to deal with the cyber threat to business.
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FeatureChanges to the Pre-Action Protocol
The Pre-Action Protocol for personal injury claims with a value of less than £10,000 arising from road traffic accidents applies to accidents occurring after 30 April 2010, when the protocol, Practice Direction 8B and the fixed costs in part 45 came into force.
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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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FeatureMediation: an acquired taste
Despite government plans to steer disputes into mediation, take-up has been slow
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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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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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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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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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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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FeatureHow public authorities should behave
Changes in the position of ‘intransigent and misleading public authority’
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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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FeatureImmigration: minimum salary requirement challenged
MM Javed & Majid v Secretary of State for the Home Department
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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?
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FeatureHow To: serve your customers
DBS Law recently gained the Customer Service Excellence standard, becoming one of the first private sector organisations to do so.
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Mesothelioma Bill
‘One has also to bear in mind that, typically, the worst symptoms of pain, suffering and loss of amenity occur in the last weeks and days of the disease’s progress and that the death… is a horrible one.’(Senior Master Whitaker: Smith v Bolton Copper Limited: Unreported 10 July 2007 QBD) ...