Solicitors must ensure they understand their duties towards LEI insurers and claims management companies or risk a claim being brought against them, says Alison Siniver
The modern legal costs industry that was initially created to serve insurers and defendants has, in the space of little more than a decade, undergone a rise and fall that would have taken other industries decades to pass through.
Masood Ahmed considers the guidance the courts have provided to those wishing to make strike out applications and how a party can avoid an order being made against them
Housing advice at the Derby Community Legal Advice Centre should be available within a fortnight but with rising demand the wait is now up four weeks, says Jon Robins
I love books. I can never pass a second-hand bookshop without emerging with an armful of them. I am the darling of mail order book companies. There are stacks of them in every corner and crevice in our house, but there is never enough time to read them all. Nonetheless, for three years of my life all that changed and I was able to rattle off the plots of books written by authors I had heard of, whose books I had thumbed on bookshelves and even bought – but which had remained unread.
HMRC's new scheme to encourage taxpayers to declare offshore income may sound very similar to the last one, but the risks are higher this time around and it is best to come forward now, says Noshir J Avari
