Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Japanese horticulture ties legislation up in knots

Sellers must take care to avoid liability for misrepresentation when replying to questions about Japanese knotweed, says Andrew Skelly

Solicitors unable to draft divorce petitions correctly

Poorly prepared D8 forms are causing unnecessary delays because lawyers won't read the guidance notes, explains District Judge Nigel Law

The star treatment

Camilla Bishop gives tips and advice on how to be a better private client lawyer

SJ about town

Press embargoes, rewrites and black-tie dinners

Simon Hughes MP vows to keep Human Rights Act and provide access to justice

Lawyers criticise Conservative proposals to scrap HRA which contain "a number of howlers" and "do not stand up to scrutiny"

Give them an inch!

Matthew Howson has a look at some of the finer points of two new powers the government is proposing to grant to HMRC; one very well known, one not so

Trashing human rights

Conservatives confirm plans to scrap Human Rights Act and replace it with a 'Bill of Rights'. John van der Luit-Drummond reports on the reaction from the legal profession

News in brief: week beginning 29 September 2014

Harrassment from clients, banking charges, mergers and fundamental dishonesty

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