Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Child benefits

Kim Beatson and Shelley Cumbers investigate whether the family courts are beginning to adopt a more child-centric approach in matters of leave to remove

Single minded

Could the forthcoming public equality duty reforms actually be a step backwards? Kiran Daurka reports

Raise the roof

Proportionality defences have been given the go ahead by the Supreme Court â€“ but they will only succeed in exceptional circumstances, says Tracey Bloom

Costume drama

I was recently on a train journey, dressed in my 'normal' clothes and flicking through a legal mag when a po-faced lady sitting opposite me enquired if I was heading to an interview.

Regulator not expecting ABS 'deluge'

Only a small number of law firms and other organisations will be applying to become alternative business structures by ABS day, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has predicted.

Baroness Scotland returns to the Bar

Baroness Scotland, the former Attorney General, is returning to the Bar, family law set 4 Paper Buildings announced today.

Employers liable for low levels of exposure to asbestos, Supreme Court rules

The Supreme Court has held that employers are liable for mesothelioma contracted by their staff even if exposure to asbestos was â€œvery smallâ€.

600 firms apply to join Law Society's conveyancing scheme

Almost 600 law firms have applied to join the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS). A spokesman for the society said that, by this morning, 582 firms had applied to join the scheme with 13 successfully accredited.

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