Residential conveyancers have dealt exceptionally well with the evolving legal landscape so far, and we should handle the arrival of ABSs and Tesco law in the same positive and proactive way, says Clare Martin
With growing competition and increasingly complex client situations, solicitors should avoid head-on competition with the new 'Tesco law' entrants and instead stay focused on the need to see will writing as part of a long-term end-to-end service, argues John Bunker
The government may be keen for not-for-profit organisations to provide deputyship services, but solicitors' advice will always be needed – particularly in more complicated cases, says Charlotte Watts
Work on this month's issue of folk law was well under way when I told the tale of John 'Babbacombe' Lee in September. It was then I realised that Exeter Assizes and home secretary Sir William Harcourt were common to this equally infamous West Country case that took place some four months before the murder in Babbacombe, Torquay shocked Victorian England.
The decision to allow the use of foreign decoders to broadcast football games is a reminder that the ECJ will continue to oppose attempts to subdivide the single market, says Paul Stanley NO
