Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

North East still rocks

Law firms in the North East may be on average smaller than their counterparts in other parts of Britain but are equally apt at tackling the downturn. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

More useful than you'd think

Landlords should be more confident to point to â€œsubstantial breachesâ€ of a tenancy agreement when refusing to renew a lease, says John Martin

Vijay Ganapathy reviews the latest cases on CFAs and assessing the risk of success, when it is appropriate to depart from the â€œbut forâ€ test, the difficulty in appealing first instance decisions, and reversing the burden of proof

Execution of Documents 2nd edition

ISBN: 978 1 85328 699 5

Respect, man

Respect, man: that is what it is all about. I have done plenty of cases where the motivation behind the alleged offending appears to be something to do with â€œrespectâ€, and â€œdissingâ€ that respect due. Now respect in these cases is a funny old thing â€“ a bit of a one-way street to be honest. In these cases the defendant's sense of his own self-respect normally exists in a bubble that appears not to allow space for respect for others. You know the sort of thing: the defendant's right to respect is mutually exclusive to the victim's right not to have a knife stabbed in their guts or a glass shoved in their face and so on.

Exclusion Clauses and Unfair Contract Terms 9th edition

ISBN: 978 1 847 03722 0

A fertile topic

On the face of it the Yearworth case has merely resolved a narrow point on the ownership of sperm but it also re-opens a range of ethical and legal questions on the status of live body parts, says James Lawford Davies

Think local

Legal departments in local authorities are taking back in house the work they were once told to outsource and are even offering services to new 'clients', but will the new generation of lawyers have the requisite skills, ask Suzanne Bond and John Emms

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