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Fertile ground

The tightening of anti-money laundering laws has slowed-down, although not yet significantly, the on-boarding of new business, observes Marcus Hinkley

To have and to hold - if you can find it

Lottie Tyler asks how effective the bankruptcy and insolvency courts are likely to be in enforcing payment of a financial order ?on divorce

Lord Chancellor judged to have acted 'unlawfully' over legal aid consultation

Embarrassment for Chris Grayling as solicitors taste victory in challenge to his reforms

Sydney-based lawyer...

...Denis Manning Anderson has allegedly been caught using the identity of a dead client to access the prized Members Reserve at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the Australian rules football AFL grand finals.

Emotive networking

Doug McPherson offers a variety of alternatives to break the tedium and inevitable cold sweats of networking events

Shedding light on Grayling's rotten 'prison estate'

MoJ hinders research into the extent of rape in prisons. John van der Luit-Drummond reports

Fifth of law firms admit to substandard service

Solicitors Regulation Authority research delves into the training systems of legal rms

State of play: case summaries

Karen Bayley and Heather Viljoen review recent case law about vulnerable clients and inheritance