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Civil litigation -- a look at Lord Woolf's fast track reforms in greater detail

1998-09-03T00:00:00Z

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Benchmarks -- being the enforcer -- how to go about enforcing a judgment -- the options, the advantages, the pitfalls

1998-09-03T00:00:00Z

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A question of care -- oft-heard criticism of the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors has been ill-formed

1998-08-12T00:00:00Z

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Into the spotlight -- after the ballot comes the hard work for the new Law Society President, Michael Mathews

1998-07-22T00:00:00Z

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Victims' victory -- the law lords are to be congratulated on last week's decision giving those suffering serious personal injury a secure future

1998-07-22T00:00:00Z

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Employment law -- fairness at work

1998-07-22T00:00:00Z

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Dealing with a possible new master -- plans which will require professional firms doing financial services to be authorised by the new FSA

1998-07-22T00:00:00Z

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Sun, sea, sand and solicitors -- how solicitors can best represent those who are arrested or injured abroad, or those who return in a litigious frame of mind having suffered the holiday from hell

1998-07-15T00:00:00Z

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Alternative routes -- a session at the Solicitors' Annual Conference will explain how to draft alternative dispute resolution clauses in commercial contracts, following a recent report on adjudication

1998-07-15T00:00:00Z

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Northern exposure -- country-wide tour continues with a look at a region dominated by the Manchester-Liverpool axis

1998-07-15T00:00:00Z

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Benchmarks -- a guide through the changing maze of the government's child support system

1998-07-15T00:00:00Z

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Last orders at the Bar? With all the newly-qualified lawyers set to enjoy higher rights of audience, is it time to have a fused legal profession?

1998-07-08T00:00:00Z

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Considering the options -- CREST membership alternatives

1998-07-08T00:00:00Z

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Bound for Bournemouth -- in the run-up to October' s 49th Solicitors Annual Conference, the first in a series of features surveying the issues on the agenda

1998-07-01T00:00:00Z

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Image building -- many prominent law firms have recently moved or announced their intention to move offices, but how big is the so-called commercial property boom?

1998-07-01T00:00:00Z

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Benchmarks -- Order 17 rule 11 -- a retrospective on automatic strike-out

1998-07-01T00:00:00Z

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Convention on Modern Liberty debate

1998-06-28T00:00:00Z

The need for a British human rights act was one of the few issues of contention to surface at the nationwide Convention on Modern Liberty held last ­Saturday, writes Michael Cross. Dominic Grieve QC MP (pictured), shadow attorney general, said a future Conservative government would introduce such an act, which ...

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Education review comes out for ‘incremental’ reform

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Legal education and training is not ‘fundamentally broken’ but is failing to ensure consistent levels of quality across the profession, a long-awaited pan-profession report says today.

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LETR: business as usual for the bar as report rejects common training

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Training for barristers and solicitors is almost certain to remain separate following the Legal Education and Training Review’s rejection of the idea of a common professional course.

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Hopes rise for legal services in EU-US free trade deal

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Free trade talks between the EU and US are almost certain to end with agreement freeing up the movement of lawyers, a leading European figure in the campaign to remove barriers has predicted. Louis-Bernard Buchman, chair of the International Legal Services committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies ...