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Update: crime and sentencing
Solicitors Journal

Update: crime and sentencing

Christopher Gutteridge reviews cases involving drug dealing on licensed premises, false rape allegations, criminal damage, child cruelty and blackmail
All will be revealed
Solicitors Journal

All will be revealed

When is disclosing information about prosecution witnesses' previous convictions justified, asks David Rhodes
Best behaviour
Solicitors Journal

Best behaviour

As courts increasingly look at the behaviour of parties during mediation proceedings, clients should be advised to cooperate fully and practitioners should ensure they take detailed notes and be prepared to give evidence, say John Bramhall and Mercedes Castillo
Pitfalls for the unwary
Solicitors Journal

Pitfalls for the unwary

Solicitors must ensure they understand their duties towards LEI insurers and claims management companies or risk a claim being brought against them, says Alison Siniver
Changing tack
Solicitors Journal

Changing tack

The modern legal costs industry that was initially created to serve insurers and defendants has, in the space of little more than a decade, undergone a rise and fall that would have taken other industries decades to pass through.
Striking at the roots
Solicitors Journal

Striking at the roots

Masood Ahmed considers the guidance the courts have provided to those wishing to make strike out applications and how a party can avoid an order being made against them
Legal aid voices: housing and repossession
Solicitors Journal

Legal aid voices: housing and repossession

Housing advice at the Derby Community Legal Advice Centre should be available within a fortnight but with rising demand the wait is now up four weeks, says Jon Robins
Planning for change
Solicitors Journal

Planning for change

Neil Collar discusses the recent changes to the Scottish planning system