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Damages-based agreements – usable with care? Part II

Damages-based agreements if they are to be used at all require careful consideration of a large number of issues. In the second article of his three part review of the use Damage Based Agreements, DAS LawAssist consultant David Chalk outlines DBAs and recovery of costs, counterclaims, deductions from damages and counsel's fees.

Disposing of claims: final orders, please

Tomlin orders should be used sparingly, as District Judge Harold Godwin explains

HMRC's new LLP tax guidance sends a mixed message on anti-avoidance

By Louis Baker, Partner, Crowe Clark Whitehill

Compensation for damage to land: The limits of Wrotham Park

Noel Dilworth and Paris Aboro unearth a previously unidentified restriction

Adjusting your business to your clients' financial constraints

With clients hit by legal aid cuts and the ongoing economic uncertainties, family lawyers are forced to re-invent their payment models, says Sarah Turnbull

APIL calls for reform of the law on psychiatric injury

Current law, 25 years after Hillsborough, is 'old-fashioned, inflexible and unfair'

Mentoring: what you can give to a new generation

By Guy Vincent, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell

Family lawyers need to start adjusting to forthcoming changes

A single family court and a faster adoption process are only some of the far-reaching changes due to take place in the coming months, says Julia Thackray