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Bird on a wire: cost penalties for unresponsive trustees

Richard Wakeham and Adam Marshall consider potential cost penalties for unresponsive trustees

One of the family: Re Erskine Trust

Adopted sons win right to be considered next of kin in High Court's decision in Re Erskine Trust, reports Joseph Goldsmith

Nurturing talent: How to develop a feedback and mentoring culture

Rebecca Normand-Hochman provides some tips on ?developing a feedback and mentoring culture

Feeling decisions: Why lawyers need emotional intelligence

Rachel Brushfield of Energise explores the importance of emotional intelligence in law firms

Deprivation of liberty: turning back the clocks

A case involving the lawfulness of the detention of a military conscript has been wrongly extended for decades to wider situations involving deprivation of liberty,...

ABS countdown | Demonstrating ongoing fitness to practise

The 'revalidation' proposal is not so radical, it simply reflects the need for a more efficient CPD system, says Stuart Bushell

The problem with our boundaries

Mangala Murali argues that the melodrama of prolonged boundary disputes is caused by the archaic nature of UK land law

Residential property update

Michael Fahy takes ?a look at some of the ?latest government initiatives purported to level out the housing market and who ?they really seek to...