Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

BVT for civil legal aid could start next year

Best value tendering for civil legal aid contracts could start next year, it has emerged.

Court of Appeal ruling moves pre-nups in position of â€œgreater magnetic forceâ€

The Court of Appeal has reduced a £5.8m divorce pay-out by a German heiress to her former husband to a lump sum about a fifth of the original award, in a decision anticipating full enforceability of pre-nuptial agreements.

Back in play

HIPs provide solicitors with an opportunity to reverse conveyancing trends and, contrary to popular belief, you don't need to charge the earth, says Paul Bibby

A fine intervention

In taking a broad interpretation to the Commission's right to intervene in national competition cases the European court has made a sensible decision, says Paul Stanley NO

Update: housing

Sarah McKeown reviews cases involving succession, possession, negligence, the Children Act and the Human Rights Act

Update: police and criminal evidence

Kim Bouwer rounds up the latest cases on privacy, police retention of evidence, powers of search and release of information to a third party

Lawyers without frontiers: Colombian fears

British lawyers must continue to support their Colombian counterparts faced with death threats for trying to defend human rights, says Sara Chandler

Wink wink, nudge nudge

â€œGood name in man and woman's dear, my lord; is the immediate jewel of our souls: who steals my purse, steals trash â€¦ but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed,â€ so says scheming Iago to Othello as he works him on to his doom.

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