Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Solicitors remember Henry Hodge

One of the country's leading solicitors, Sir Henry Hodge, died on 18 June. He was diagnosed with leukaemia in September last year.

K&L Gates opens doors in Dubai

INTERNATIONAL LAW firm K&L Gates LLP has established its first presence in the Middle East with the opening of an office in Dubai.

Rude awakening

You can wake a sleeping animal if you stare at them intently enough. A cat, a dog, or even a slumbering husband, will start to twitch under your eyes, and then spark into wakefulness. It is an instinct from the days when eyes on your skin in the night meant someone had come to get you. And how often have you, when awake, known that someone was staring at you, and turned around to check who it was?

Putting out fire with gasoline

The Court of Appeal's decision against Michael Napier has left solicitors accused of misconduct with little protection from unjustified negative publicity, says Michelle Garlick

Placing the blame

Partners in a firm have a duty to act in good faith to other partners, but when are they personally liable for their own negligence and when is it the firm's responsiblity, asks Mark Blackett-Ord

At the deep end

Where personal injury claims are fraudulent or exaggerated, when and how can an appellant bring proceedings for contempt of court, ask Simon Pedley and James Thackray

Update: clinical negligence

Dr Jock Mackenzie considers cases on causation where there are several possible causes of injury; on the importance of timings to causation in cerebral palsy cases; and on factual dispute involving expert evidence

Update: residential property

Janet Armstrong-Fox discusses recent cases on acceptance of a surrender of a lease, signing contracts on behalf of a client and serving a notice to recover the cost of works through a service charge

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