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Life in crime | Commitment issues

Advocates must sometimes resist the temptation 'to keep the brief in-house and avoid being in a position where they are unable to attend court if...

Technology | Will the new Windows help Microsoft back into the legal sector?

With most law firms running a Microsoft-based network, the launch of Windows 8 could be 'a momentous event, at least for legal software developers, says...

Workshop: Commercial: invoice finance

The continued economic downturn is making many smaller companies consider ?alternative ways of securing funding for their business, with lawyers increasingly ?brought in to advise...

Simplifying adoption laws

With a growing number of would-be adopters and children in care, should adoption laws be simplified to make the process easier, asks Alec Samuels

Update | Sports law: doping and lifetime bans, and ambush marketing

Oliver Hunt reviews the decision by the Court for Arbitration in Sport forcing the 'British Olympic Association to withdraw its bye-law on lifetime bans for...

Update | Clinical negligence: midwives, paramedics and other medical staff

Jock Mackenzie considers recent cases involving allegations of negligence by midwives, paramedics and obstetrics staff, and the extent to which the Court of Appeal will...

Open season: reporting restrictions in family law

Miranda Fisher considers reporting restrictions in the family justice system

Workshop: Property: mitigating the risks of conditional contracts

It's a course of action that conveyancers should avoid without good reason 'but where no alternative to a conditional contract exists John Coulter advises 'careful...