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Better budgeting

There are opportunities for costs lawyers in challenging solicitors' bills, but Claire Green says they are also the answer to the problem

A discount too far for insurers

UK-wide parity is needed for a more accurate discount rate to be set when the next review comes round in five years, says Ben Posford

Adoption orders: a rare revocation

Adoption orders: a rare revocation

Solicitors 'blind' to their failings

APIL calls for clarity on medical reports

Lessons from 50 years of legal change

David Kirwan says despite innumerable changes in the legal sector over half a century, clients still need to know they're dealing with a living, breathing...

Land agreements: when exclusivity clauses breach competition law

The CMA has started to use its competition enforcement powers to sanction anti-competitive land agreements between landlords and tenants, say Neil Baylis and Gwen Ballin-Reeler

Children proceedings: speeding up disclosure of police records

The 2013 protocol can be a useful tool in private Children Act cases where you need to obtain police records, as Mariko Wilson explains