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Workshop: Investigating title: unregistered land

Unregistered land is becoming increasingly rare, but when dealing with it you will need to investigate title to the property, explains John Coulter

Complaints | The perils of predictive emailing

Eleanor Kilner advises on the remedial and preventative measures firms should take when faced with accidentally emailing the wrong recipient

Addressing attitude is key for business development

Address the attitude of your firm and everything else will fall into place, recommends Julian Summerhayes

Update | Company: new government proposals for SMEs and legitimate business expenditure and situations

Debbie King considers 'new government proposals for SMEs, the definition 'of legitimate business expenditure and situations where a director can be barred from using company...

Update | Construction: information under an audit clause

Understanding the extent of information that contractors may be expected to produce ?under an audit clause is becoming increasingly important, says Chris Holwell

Costs budgeting survey: profession unconvinced and unprepared

Not only are lawyers unconvinced by the new costs budgeting rules, there are also serious fears that judges will not have the capacity to discharge...

Charities | Should charities propagate extremist views?

Trustees must keep the best interests of their charity ?at heart when considering giving a platform to ?extremist views, says Kenneth Dibble

Workshop: Updated practice on joint ownership

John Bunker reviews the new practice note designed to? mitigate the conflicts associated with joint ownership