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Legal Education and Training Review: new beginnings or missed opportunity?

Two years in the making and 350 pages later, the report produced by the Legal Education and Training Review team has come out with the not-so-radical conclusion that professional standards are pretty good. There are undoubtedly some worthwhile recommendations, including scrapping minimum CPD hours and encouraging the regulators to provide alternative access routes. But is it, as the Consumer Panel has said, a missed opportunity? We asked stakeholders for their reaction

Experts | Drawing a line in boundary disputes

Experts can help keep parties in boundary disputes out of court, and their use is only going to increase, believes Mangala Murali

Experts | Medical experts must find a happy medium

Medical experts are almost always needed in clinical negligence litigation, but their role could change after Jackson, even in high-value litigation, says Jeanette Aspinall

McCririck can go ahead with age discrimination claim

Former Channel 4 racing presenter was employee of TV production company

Experts | Valuation of assets in matrimonial disputes

Assessing the valuation of assets in matrimonial disputes is a difficult task and balances on the disclosure of information, says ?David Black

Mind reading

Get inside your client's head to help them control their emotions when it comes to financial planning, says Steven Hennessy

Balva: learning the unrated lesson the hard way

The collapse of Balva will make many smaller firms weigh up the benefits of staying in business compared with the risk of potentially very significant personal liability, says Jason Nash

Building public trust

Legal comparison websites are not going to go away, 'says Steve Brooker as he urges lawyers to be more transparent about service and pricing