Setting an upper limit on costs in defamation cases would amount to defendants getting unjustified special privileges over claimants, says Gideon Benaim
The legislation on age discrimination sits uncomfortably alongside today's economic troubles, while the legitimacy of forced retirement remains a vexed question for employers and employees alike, says Schona Jolly
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
Vijay Ganapathy reviews the latest cases on CFAs and assessing the risk of success, when it is appropriate to depart from the “but for†test, the difficulty in appealing first instance decisions, and reversing the burden of proof
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
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