Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Seeing the light

The Industrial Revolution was an explosion of new inventions and innovations that provoked widespread industrial change, transforming Britain from a predominantly agricultural country to an industrial one. In an age of imperial expansion, new sources of prosperity and ceaseless manufacturing, Victorian social reformers called for better public sanitation and street lighting as the population of its towns and cities multiplied rapidly.

Back to square one

After six years of battling over a disclosure case, the ECJ has failed to make any significant progress over the issue of access to official documents, argues Paul Stanley QC

Life line

Is life being breathed into inheritance tax? Stephen Barratt considers the latest changes to the rules

Legal purgatory

Trainee Elizabeth Thomas waxes satirical

Public Guardian in second attempt to recruit non-lawyer deputies

The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) is making a second attempt to replace solicitors as deputies with cheaper lay representatives from charities.

Solicitors have 'different views' on ABS, Wotton says

Solicitors have â€œmany different viewsâ€ on the impact of ABS, John Wotton, the new president of the Law Society, has told the American Bar Association.

Home sweet home

The beleaguered UK care industry is in desperate need of relief, but will the government give a warm welcome to proposals for reform? Natalie Boorer reports

Drawing up deeds of trust

Safeguarding the interests of individuals who have helped fund a property purchase should be a matter of principle, says John Coulter

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