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Practice Management Focus

SJ's practice management focus 2016 is now available to view online

Avoid disputes over property alterations

A new protocol will aid the smooth resolution of applications by tenants for consent to carry out alterations to their leasehold premises, explain Caroline Shea QC and James Tipler

The expert witness as seen by the Supreme Court

The judgment in Kennedy v Cordia is a welcome reminder of the duty of the expert to assist the court and of the limits on their role, writes Alec Samuels

Trunki: Registered design law clarified

Following the suitcase designer's loss in the Supreme Court, John Coldham considers the current law on community registered designs

The Brexit lawyers: United in cause, divided in opinion

Matthew Rogers speaks to two lawyers with opposing views on the ?nation's best interests ahead of the EU referendum

The Solicitors' Journal - March 21, 1896

IN THE CASE of Re Countess of Oxford, Cartwright v. Del Balzo (1896, 1 Ch. D. 257), North, J., held that estate duty under the Finance Act, 1894, ought, as between a sum specifically appointed out of certain settled property and the residue of the same property, to be borne rateably.

BBC Four's The Prosecutors failed to deliver

A chance to reveal the real workings of the CJS has been wasted by something resembling The Office, writes John Cooper QC

The legal war of words over the Calais jungle

The migrants' camp across the Channel is working to everyone's advantage in the Brexit debate, and both parties are right - and wrong - in their arguments, writes Thom Brooks