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Should a breach of trust be 'serious' to end an agency agreement?

The claim against fashionable shoemaker Crocs by its former UK agents that 'the company wrongly ended their agreement could reinvent the rules on 'termination of an agency relationship, says Stephen Sidkin

Quality street: are accreditation schemes any use?

Accreditation schemes for the legal profession are – in the main – hyped up box-ticking processes doing little to help solicitors on the high street, says Howard Salter

European briefing | Complying with information requirements online

Few would disagree that handing over a letter counts as communicating information, even though the recipient must open it to know about its content, 'so why not consider hyperlinks in the same way, asks Paul Stanley NO

Protecting yourself against vendor fraud

Michelle Garlick

Recognising chronic pain

Chronic pain conditions too often remain undiagnosed and wrongly pushed through the portal scheme, says Fiona Ashworth

Hedged in: charity trustees

Simon Williams considers whether charity trustees are in danger of getting lost in a maze of investment choices

Estate planning update: Inheritance Act claims after Lilleyman

Susi Dunn reviews the state of the law on Inheritance Act claims after the Lilleyman case, the lottery winners' joint accounts case, and the new reduced IHT rate for charity legacies

Company law update: share buybacks

Mark Lucas examines how private companies can fund share buybacks out 'of distributable profits without adverse 'tax treatment