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Who should pay for bad legal advice?

Firms that rely on standard letters to advise clients leave themselves open to potentially opportunistic professional negligence claims, warns Jennifer Haren

The Hound of Hounslow: Regulating against the 'flash crash'

Richard Padley and Kate Parker discuss the high prosecutorial threshold needed to arraign those spoofing the financial markets

Navigating beneficiaries

A Cheshire woman has discovered her long lost brother's unique past thanks to TV Heir hunters' search

A welcome relief

The fall in oil prices has been kind to many and it's forecast to support steady growth, but the threat of further shocks is still very real, says Claire Bennison

Mutually assured

The court will consider all of the evidence at its disposal when considering the validity of mutual wills, even accounts of conversations, says Lloyd Junor

Maintaining credit

Maintaining a healthy cash flow in any line of business is essential, but it's often a case of small details creating big problems, says Geraint Jones

Doing a runner from the cabbie

Constraints placed on the first instance courts by authorities have led to an inconsistent approach in cases involving claimants who have jumped from moving taxis, says Roger Cooper

Pulling at the lead

Consent remains at the heart of arbitration law, but the concept has had to become more elastic as the dispute resolution procedure has evolved into new areas, says Henry Byam-Cook