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Workshop: Drafting wills with a foreign element

Chris Hards explains how to draw up wills for clients with assets in multiple jurisdictions and avoid a prolonged probate process

Update | Sport: Doping and its consequences

What are the legal ramifications for sports people found to have breached 'doping rules? Kendrah Potts takes an in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's case

Update | Commercial property: Chancel repair liability, parking enforcement

Magnus Hassett, Ed Tennant and Ben Brayford consider recent developments in commercial property law including changes that may free property owners from ?chancel repair liability and lessons over parking enforcement

Justifying age discrimination'on grounds of cost

Regarding cost as a justification to age discrimination alongside 'other factors' involves unsatisfactory game playing for both employees and employers, says Deshpal Panesar

Fair share? Scottish wills

Jacqueline Leslie discusses prior legal rights that automatically entitle families in Scotland to a share of a deceased's estate

View from the bench | Counting the minutes and the pennies

Costs, time management and targets will become ?a bigger concern in a post-Jackson world for both ?litigants and judges, says Richard Chapman

Is specific performance an option for landlords?

The strict conditions set out by the courts for landlords to be able to rely on the ?equitable remedy shouldn't discourage potential applicants, says Emma Hatfield

Bar Focus | An advocacy scheme to benefit who?

 With QASA due for gradual implementation in the new year, Abigail Bright questions whether seeing the scheme in practice will stem the tide of scepticism