Jean-Yves Gilg

Editor, Solicitors Journal

London: a balanced diet

Mixed practices that have kept private client work, once seen as unfashionable, at the core of their strategy, have proved that this can be a...

Government launches review of out-of-court disposals

The government is to review the use of out-of-court disposals such as cautions and on-the-spot fines following disquiet over reports that they were being used...

LSB confirms 2010 regulatory framework

The Legal Services Board has published its final rules on the new regulatory framework applicable to the legal sector from January 2010.

Law Society threatens legal action over fate of LCS complaints staff

The Law Society has today threatened legal action over the fate of 370 Legal Complaints Service staff, currently employed in Leamington Spa and London.

Solicitor advocates could become barristers, Bar chairman suggests

Nicholas Green QC, new chairman of the Bar Council, has shown he is prepared to think the unthinkable by suggesting that solicitor advocates could in...

Commission's "cost-cutting" VHCC scheme angers barristers and solicitors

lawyers have reacted angrily to an announcement from the LSC that one option for 'very high cost' criminal cases would be to extend the limits...

Disabled campaigner challenges assisted suicide ruling

A wheelchair-bound patient who suffers from spina bifida, hydrocephalus, emphysema, osteoporosis and arthritis has challenged the House of Lords' decision in Debbie Purdy's assisted suicide...

Overdrawn but not over

Andrew Head examines the impact of the bank charges ruling on the thousands of cases that were stayed pending the outcome of the case

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