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Quality street: are accreditation schemes any use?

Accreditation schemes for the legal profession are – in the main – hyped up box-ticking processes doing little to help solicitors on the high street, says Howard Salter

European briefing | Complying with information requirements online

Few would disagree that handing over a letter counts as communicating information, even though the recipient must open it to know about its content, 'so why not consider hyperlinks in the same way, asks Paul Stanley NO

Protecting yourself against vendor fraud

Michelle Garlick

Recognising chronic pain

Chronic pain conditions too often remain undiagnosed and wrongly pushed through the portal scheme, says Fiona Ashworth

Felix | Lawyers to the rescue

We may be unappreciated and unloved members of society, but we are worth hanging on to, says Felix

How to have a positive impact and make a good first impression

By Beverly Landais, CEO, Devereux

Hedged in: charity trustees

Simon Williams considers whether charity trustees are in danger of getting lost in a maze of investment choices

Estate planning update: Inheritance Act claims after Lilleyman

Susi Dunn reviews the state of the law on Inheritance Act claims after the Lilleyman case, the lottery winners' joint accounts case, and the new reduced IHT rate for charity legacies