Features – Page 77
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FeatureCPD: learning by design
Following the Legal Education and Training Review, we look at the future of continuing professional development.
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FeatureHow to: boost your media profile
We consider the value of a media strategy and hiring public relations expertise.
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FeatureTechnology: this year's model
For lawyers and clients, innovative devices are blurring the boundaries between work and play.
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FeatureSingapore’s attraction as a hub for western legal expertise creates tensions
Singapore is blessed with political stability and a triple-A rated economy but has an overcrowded and competitive market.
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FeatureHow to: manage your emails
Dealing with and storing emails has been shown to occupy up to half the time of highly-skilled professionals such as lawyers. Roy Russell offers some tips for easing the burden
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FeatureIn defence of refugees
The Mateta case highlights fears that asylum seekers and refugees are not being adequately advised, writes Yewa Holiday.
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FeatureJurisdiction and meaning of habitual residence
A landmark decision from the Supreme Court will have significant implications for practitioners.
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FeatureLaw firms and sustainability: good business sense
Far from being an unnecessary distraction in a difficult market, policies and practices that reduce law firms’ impact on the environment are good for business.
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FeatureHow To: be a COFA
The role of compliance officer for finance and administration remains both underappreciated and imperfectly understood.
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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