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Workshop: Public law

Parties to judicial review proceedings should make clear their intention to settle at the 'earliest opportunity if they want to avoid adverse costs orders, says...

Balancing risks: How the SRA's FP2 affects PII

Elliott Vigar, head of regulation at the Law Society of England and Wales, explores the fallout from the SRA's second-stage financial protection review

Fault lines: How a risk audit can help with securing PII

Frank Maher, a partner at Legal Risk, explores how risk audits ?can help with obtaining professional indemnity cover

Unintended consequences: The LSA's impact on PII

David Simon, managing partner at Robin Simon, discusses how ?the Legal Services Act has affected professional indemnity insurance in the UK

Challenging speed camera evidence

The presumption that a vehicle owner has committed 'an offence may only exceptionally be displaced, 'says Andrew Church-Taylor

Equality of arms: the intended effect of the new rules on cost proportionality

The proposed new rules on costs recoverability ought to ensure defendants with deep pockets cannot manipulate the personal injury litigation market, or at least they...

Prosecuting internet sex offences under old laws

When Parliament was in the process of considering the Criminal Justice and Immigration bill in 2008, various interest and pressure groups lobbied in the hope...

Clearer public benefit guidance

Charity Commission lawyer Kenneth Dibble calls on stakeholders to help craft new public benefit guidance principles on the class of beneficiaries in the 'context of...