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Lawyers need to save £18,000 a year to ensure comfortable retirement

Current saving levels not sufficient to generate £36,000+ per annum

Assessment days: Do they pass or fail?

A single day assessment can deliver the right candidates, provided firms fully invest in the process and prospective employees carry out a variety of exercises,...

Gradual PACE of change

Claire Hegarty and Irene McMillan consider developments in case law and legislation relating to police powers, including the contentious question of the use of pre-charge...

Lifestyle choices, mere busybodies, and picture frames

Adam Carvalho and Richard McDermott consider the courts' approach to claims brought under the Inheritance Act 1975 by adult children and creditors of beneficiaries

What's in a name?

Mike Shaw discusses the High Court's decision in Karen Millen on a founder's use of their own name following a business exit

The tide is turning in disability discrimination law

The courts' increasingly liberal approach to article 15 claims places a greater onus on employers to provide objective justification for discrimination, says Karen Jackson

Retaining employees: One size does not fit all

Offering greater flexibility and a clear pathway for progression are just some of the steps firms must take to hang onto a new generation of...

The need for a consistent approach to same-sex marriage

Differences in the law on same-sex marriage and adoption internationally are preventing parents from being recognised as such, writes Helen Greenfield