Jean-Yves Gilg

Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Articles

When can you safely terminate a retainer?
Solicitors Journal

When can you safely terminate a retainer?

Before suspending work for a client who refuses to pay, solicitors must ensure that 'their terms of business clearly provide them with adequate rights to do so, 'say Bernard Livesey QC and Joshua Munro
Stealth tactics: making unfair dismissal worthless
Solicitors Journal

Stealth tactics: making unfair dismissal worthless

Having found that it could not politically do away with unfair dismissal outright, the government now wants 'to – quietly – make it worthless, says Anya Palmer
Civil conduct | Is mediation worth the money?
Solicitors Journal

Civil conduct | Is mediation worth the money?

The Court of Appeal has stressed that there are legitimate circumstances when mediation ?is not appropriate, but if a party is found to have unreasonably refused to mediate they ?may be penalised on costs, warn John Bramhall and Melissa Jones
Construction update
Solicitors Journal

Construction update

Anna Stillman reviews two protocol compliance cases, the severability of adjudicators' decisions and a case in which the court delivered a scathing reproach of a firm's conduct of a claim on a conditional fee arrangement