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Consumer update

Geoffrey Simpson-Scott asks whether, following Clark, it is better for unhappy clients of financial advisers to litigate or rely on the ombudsman

Legal aid is rare but not extinct

Eleven months on and there still appears to be a number of grey areas when ascertaining what clients are and are not entitled to, says Simon Dakers

Law Commission proposes litigant-friendly divorce reforms

Law reform body recommends introduction of financial needs guidance and 'qualifying' prenups

The customer is always right

Catherine Burtinshaw considers how to cope with the wrong instructions

Smaller firms 'can make personal injury work'

First4Lawyers opens panel to firms with turnovers of more than £2.5m

Making a tax-compliant point

Liechtenstein shares many similarities with Switzerland but it is constantly moving with a changing wealth world to stand its independent ground, says Dr Ariel Sergio Goekmen

The internet doesn't solve every problem

Seeing a client across the table is all very 1960s, but it does help, says Russell Conway

Throw the book at them

Literature has featured in sentencing for the wrong reasons, but could reading be a novel punishment, asks Richard Easton