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Update: costs

Simon Gibbs reviews the latest amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules, including recoverability of after the event insurance premiums, staged ATE premiums, the requirement to serve a statement of reasons and court discretion in relation to a breach of the procedural rules

Plan and protect

Whichever government ends up in charge after next year's election, your clients will need to think carefully about their health and pensions plans, says Peter Nellist

Made to measure

Unless you can prove that non-compliance has caused a measurable increase in costs, it is unlikely that a costs order will be made or any penalty given, warns Francesca Kaye

Update: welfare and benefits

Gareth Mitchell considers the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People, age assessments, charging for homecare services, care planning for children, defective benefit claims and the latest developments in possession proceedings

Tweeting for lawyers – part two

So, you know what Twitter is and what it can do for businesses, and have decided that it is right for your firm. But what's next? In the second of her two-part article, Helene Russell gives tips for successful tweeting

Lawyers without frontiers: Nigeria

The Nigeria Law School and the Nigerian Bar Association, now with the support of the Law Society in England, are leading the fight for the protection of human rights and access to justice in a country that has suffered from decades of military rule, says Sara Chandler

Left wide open

Further rules intended to promote greater transparency in the workings of the family courts may be detrimental to the administration of justice, argues David Lister

No quick fix

Fixed success fees bare no relation to practitioners' assessments of the overall risks in asbestos disease claims and should be removed to protect claimants' access to justice, says Andrew Morgan