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Civil litigation brief

This month Gordon Exall takes a detailed look at the rules relating to amending parties after the expiry of the limitation period

Seeing red

Will the first case in favour of a bank stem the flow of complaints against penalty charges for unauthorised overdrafts, asks Richard Lawson

Practice trends: charity law

As the Charities Act 2006 is gradually implemented, the voluntary sector is beginning to grapple with a new set of challenges. Jean-Yves Gilg reports

Book review: Gambling for Local Authorities: Licensing, Planning and Regeneration

Gambling for Local Authorities: Licensing, Planning and Regeneration; Philip Kolvin (ed.), Institute of Licensing, 2007, £49, ISBN 978-0-9555392-0-6

Felix: Our cumbersome carbon footprint

You have to feel sorry for the farmers. First it was BSE, then it was foot-and-mouth, and now it is flatulence. Farmers are now getting the blame for global warming because the cows are pumping out gas at both ends more than the apocryphal vicarage tea party.

White & Case LLP

Originally from Legal Marketing magazine vol 2 Issue 3: Graduate recruitment in law firms around the world ranges from being very organised and systematic to being completely unstructured and ad hoc. A lot depends on the size of the firm, the type of practice and the culture of the country where the firm is located. Having recently been involved in setting up a graduate-recruitment programme for an international law firm in Moscow, I thought it perhaps fitting to offer some suggestions in the event you are ever challenged to start up a graduate-recruitment function for an evolving or new market, or need ideas to 'perk up' your current recruiting process.

Not in full agreement

Entire agreements clauses will only be effective if the wording is sufficiently clear and wide in scope, say Eamonn Mcnamara and Michael Twomey

Life in crime

Francis FitzGibbon explains that the IPP regime may have the opposite effect to what was intended