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The benefits of sector marketing

A sector strategy is about strengthening key client relationships and making you more attractive to targets in areas you know and serve best, explains Douglas...

Leigh Day highlights the SRA's inconsistent approach to enforcement

Martina Hogg argues that the soon-to-be-launched enforcement consultation must take into account concerns about how the regulator handles SDT cases

New wine, new bottles

The new anti-money laundering regulations build on the approach developed under the previous rules but much is new, too, and law firms shouldn't just blindly...

Religion and the welfare of the child, part 2

A recent case demonstrates the difficult position of the courts where the gulf between the parents' communities is 'too wide for the children to bridge',...

Trust the experts

Recent judgments containing damning criticism of expert evidence provide a useful reminder of the duties experts owe to the court, write Kirsten Wall and Leila...

CROs: Too much of a bad thing

Is it time to consider a further remedy beyond civil restraint orders for dealing with irrational litigants, asks Patrick Wheeler

Competence to conclude free trade agreements

As a member state that is shortly to become a non-member state, the UK must take a keen interest in the CJEU opinion on a...

Without access to justice, the law is a dead letter

Snigdha Nag examines the Supreme Court's landmark decision which finally quashed the coalition government's controversial employment tribunal fees