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Owning social media data

Andy Williams and Emily Chalkley consider steps employers should take to protect the client contact details contained in employees' social media accounts

Unreasonable costs

Sue Nash considers recent decisions on reducing disproportionate costs budgets and what this will mean for estimating future costs

Cannibalism in the legal sector

Firms are preying on each other as the number of opportunistic claims for under-settlement of a previous case increases, says Chris Neale

Pensions panic opens old wounds

Dilini Loku considers the recent decision on IBM's closure of its defined benefit pension schemes and what this means for employers

Wishing away

Richard McDermott and Adam Carvalho discuss recent estate planning case law, including an undisclosed lifetime gift, proprietary estoppel, and will drafting

State of play: case summaries

Karen Bayley and Jennifer Ridgway examine recent case law concerning the deprivation of liberty, vulnerable clients and trusts

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