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Complaints | Best steps when your firm breaches client confidentiality

Eleanor Kilner looks at the best steps to take when ?your firm has breached client confidentiality

Workshop: Auction contracts

If dealt with properly, auction contracts can be a ?painless process for conveyancers, says John Coulter

Civil conduct | The concept of good faith remains elusive

The concept of good faith remains just out of reach despite best efforts to push it into the mainstream of commercial contracts, says Julian Acratopulo

Update | Health and safety: Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act and the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences Regulations

Zahra Nanji reports on changes made by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 'and the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurences Regulations

Judicial review: prompt and prompter

The new time limit for challenges to planning decision could have a dampening effect on claims, but, more likely, it will encourage more applications on...

TUPE reform: restrained yet pragmatic

The government has held back on its intention to remove some of the 'gold plating' on TUPE rules, but its latest proposals are surprisingly sensible,...

View from the bench | Help the court to help you

Solicitors who send letters to the county court two or three times, followed with fax and email copies, do nothing to help their case or...

Crash and capture: how insurers want to cut out lawyers from the claims process

Arguments by insurers to cut portal fees further are just another attempt at removing independent lawyers from the compensation process, says Michael Williamson