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Human rights round-up

Dr Helen O'Nions considers significant decisions on the bedroom tax, the detained fast track for asylum seekers, and the conduct of British military personnel overseas

How much should a lawyer charge?

Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC on how billable hours worth thousands of pounds are far removed from the Bar, where direct access and new fee models are changing the client landscape

RNRB: Coping with downsizing

John Bunker advises on helping clients to anticipate future residence nil-rate band claims

To deduct or not to deduct

In low-value claims, far too many claimant solicitors are failing to appreciate that they cannot deduct an amount representing 25 per cent of a child's damages as of right, ?writes Judge Marshall Phillips 

Cost budgeting reforms: 'The good and the bad

While the proposal for an agreed budget discussion form is a positive step, Francis Kendall is wary about the 21-day period for budgets to be filed and exchanged

Cloud computing for law firms

Cloud-based systems contain some traps for the unwary, but these can be avoided with good judgement and good management, explains Damian Blackburn

Solicitors and conveyancers predict a busier market in 2016

Searches UK discuss the predicted increase in transactions this year and the VAT to be added to council (official) local authority searches

Supreme Court to hear bedroom tax cases

The court will hear challenges from both the government and individuals on the controversial tax this year