Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

'Lord Chancellor should be a lawyer not a career politician', practitioners tell inquiry

Current role combining the offices of Lord Chancellor and secretary of state for justice creates a conflict of interests, argues APIL

SJ about town

Silly season, politicians say the dumbest things and SJ Live is back in town

News in brief: week beginning 25 August 2014

All hail the chief, 'open justice' in court and 'go compare' your lawyer

Social media contraband

Ban Twitter and Facebook to avoid losing out in the divorce law courts, argues Katy Barber

Crown Prosecution Service completes first ever asset recovery in UAE

Further plans to secure similar outcomes across the globe with the creation of an asset recovery advisor network

Strand academy

If civil justice were like education, what would the end-of-year report for summer 2014 say? Francesca Kaye takes an alternative look at civil justice performance in the past year

Denton v White: back from the brink

The Court of Appeal's ruling in Denton is a tacit acknowledgment that it got it wrong in Mitchell, says David Holland QC

Parental gifts and reservation of benefit

Giving property away, particularly the family home, so that it is out of your estate for IHT purposes while still living in it or otherwise enjoying a benefit from it has become increasingly difficult in recent years, explain William Hadley and Fiona Graham

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