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Come together

Collaborative law can provide clients with the control and privacy needed to resolve family disputes, says Jane Cowley

Stop navel gazing and focus on your clients' changing needs

By Julious P. Smith, Jr, Chairman Emeritus, Williams Mullen

Council breached equality duty with library cuts

Surrey County Council breached its public sector equality duty by voting through a plan to replace professional librarians with volunteers, the High Court has ruled.

Strasbourg judges reject terrorism suspects' extradition appeal

The European Court of Human Rights disappointed many of its critics this morning by rejecting the claims of five men charged with terrorism offences in the US that extradition would violate their human rights.

Drop the sales pitch for a stewardship-approach, Colin Lawson tells wealth management companies

Courts without lawyers

Litigants in person don't represent themselves by choice. Mostly they do so either because their claim falls outside the scope of legal aid or because they cannot afford a lawyer or don't regard it as value.

Applying to become an alternative business structure

Three-partner firm John Welch & Stammers was one of the first three organisations to be licensed as an alternative business structure by the SRA last month. New non-lawyer managing partner Bernadette Summers gives her account of the application process

Sound investment: clarifying the rules on capital and income in trusts

From new rules allowing charities to run a more effective total return investment policy to a complete reform of the treatment of capital and income, the Trusts (Capital & Income) Bill will provide much-needed clarification for trustees, says Sonal Shah