Jean-Yves Gilg

Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

Articles

Not another wine bar
Solicitors Journal

Not another wine bar

The government's so-called 'consultation' over proposed court closures borders on the scandalous, says Philip Henson
The best medicine
Solicitors Journal

The best medicine

Do you ever sit across the table from a client and wonder why you are on one side of the table and they are on the other? I have this terrible anxiety that I shall come back to earth in another life and find myself as a career criminal, from a young age destined to spend much of my life behind bars or at the police station, and being spoken to through the wicket by a harassed duty solicitor or being advised by someonewearing a wing collar and funny white bands and a horse-hair wig. I worry that I will be the one bewildered at the back of numerous courts not being able to hear properly what is going on and being sent down for years at a time. I have represented people my age, and I always wonder how it was that I grew up to sit on one side of the table and my client grew up to sit on the other. It all seems to be about chance.
Update: agriculture
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Update: agriculture

Falling branches, dung deadlines and the civil liberties of soft furry things - Simon Blackburn reports on an eventful summer in agricultural law
Yorkshire: battle of the brands
Solicitors Journal

Yorkshire: battle of the brands

As we edge closer to the full force of the Legal Services Act, firms are increasingly focusing on their 'brand' to differentiate themselves – and Yorkshire lawyers are making sure they're ahead of the game. Jean-Yves Gilg reports
Firm must pay for asbestos victim's hospice care
Solicitors Journal

Firm must pay for asbestos victim's hospice care

Engineering firm Foster Wheeler must pay for the hospice care of a worker who died of mesothelioma which he contracted as a result of exposure to asbestos, the High Court has ruled.
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