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24 Mar 2016

#SJ160 crossword

Have you been keeping up to date with Solicitors Journal's archived articles? Think you're fully briefed in legal history?

24 Mar 2016

Easements: A leisurely pursuit

Annabel Cox, Peter Selwyn, and Laura Williamson advise on what can and cannot be classed as an easement, new property measurement standards, and assets of community value

24 Mar 2016

Will new guidelines improve health and safety compliance?

Zahra Nanji and Andrew Cooper consider the sentencing guidance, including the requirement to classify organisations according to turnover when assessing the level of fines

24 Mar 2016

Reforms must ensure access to justice for the public

There is some merit in Briggs LJ's proposals to introduce an online court, but some matters will always require more judicial involvement, says District Judge Paul Ayers

24 Mar 2016

Essence: A triumph of substance over form

Leo Charalambides and Katherine Barnes discuss a recent case on the right to appeal to the magistrates' court where the complainant has been incorrectly named

24 Mar 2016

Conveyancers vulnerable to fraud by failing to e-verify clients

Sole practitioners are leaving themselves exposed to risk of criminal activity

24 Mar 2016

Equality Act not protecting the disabled, peers find

Lords committee slams government inaction, the introduction of tribunal fees, and cuts to legal aid

23 Mar 2016

New solicitors' rulebook begins to take shape

Code of conduct to be slashed to a just 10 pages, reveals Crispin Passmore