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Success planning: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

From humble beginnings to market dominance, Michael Kain recounts the rise and rise of Kain Knight and what the future holds for costs lawyers, writes Laura Clenshaw

The Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter – January 16, 1915

From the archive: In 1915, SJ considered the legality of introducing conscription during the First World War

David Miranda: Court of Appeal finds 'counter terrorism powers' incompatible with human rights

Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 needs to be remedied to allow for judicial oversight

An encounter with 'the attorney general

Phillip Taylor recounts recent talks with Jeremy Wright QC and the chair of the ?Justice Committee, Bob Neill

First4Lawyers: 'Targeting the claimant in 'a consumer-driven world

Where upfront costs can be up to £1,200, Qamar Anwar discusses utilising ATEs ?and DBAs in the employment law sector

Training for today in legal aid

Does a new centralised assessment really address the issues facing the profession, ask Siobhan Taylor-Ward and Gimhani Eriyagolla

Employee emails: No snooper's charter

In B?rbulescu v Romania (Application No 61496/08), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) had to determine whether an employer was entitled to monitor an employe';s private electronic communications.

Lord Woolf primed to give keynote at Solicitors Journal Live

Former Master of the Rolls to address delegates on maintaining standards in a modern legal world