Legal Features

Articles

Yellow fever

Is Twitter set to become as popular with lawyers as Yellow Pages was in the '80s, or will it just fade away in a few years' time? ponders Russell Conway

Judges must be careful not to encourage hopeless committal proceedings

County courts should look at the nature and enforceability of an undertaking to make a payment before giving effect to it in a financial order, says DJ John Doel

Unstable ground

Shovelar v Lane demonstrates the risks to executors of litigation, says Joseph Goldsmith

Traveller's checks

The increasingly international nature of private wealth poses more challenges for practitioners, say Saleem Sheikh and James Cohen

Clinical negligence update

Dr Jock Mackenzie explores a recent case involving a claimant practitioner's reliance on res ipsa loquitur

Supply and demand

The latest ECJ decision on selective distribution agreements demonstrates a lack of understanding of consumer values, says Paul Stanley NO

False promises

The proposed ban on referral fees is unlikely to bring about the positive changes promised by the government – it will just create hard work for regulators, argues Susanna Heley

Vocation, vocation, vocation

Universities this year saw a record drop of 5.2 per cent in applications to study law. Fees have risen at a time when interest in participating in apprenticeships has also increased – according to a recent report by the Office of National Statistics, 16.6 per cent more people took up apprenticeships in 2009/10 than in the previous year. Meanwhile in the legal market the advent of ABSs serves both to highlight the diversity of legal services offered and to change the models by which these are delivered. In doing so, will there still be a place for the law degree, or will the market be better served by on-the-job training?