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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

Reality bites

Costs budgeting is now the norm in most types of litigation, not least in proceedings concerning trusts and estates, where the costs can be very high, says Lloyd Junor

Birmingham Law Society joins criminal legal aid protest

James Parry threatens second SGM to demand resignation of Fluck and Hudson

New sexual offences guidelines: a step in the right direction

Tougher sentences for sex crimes recognises the seriousness of these offences but they don't provide all the answers, says Maryam Syed

Family law reform: divorce and matrimonial planning for litigants in person

Prenups should be binding and individuals unable to a ord lawyers should have access to ready-to-use financial reckoners, says the Law Commission. Jean-Yves Gilg reports