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Commercial contracts update

Mark Lucas and Matthew Peto look at the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 and the issue of good faith

Commercial property update

Magnus Hassett and Nikolas Ireland discuss Land Registry practice, leases, M&S's failed appeal, insuring trees and the new capital allowance rules

Surely you can't be serious

If the intention of cost budgeting is to bring down the cost of litigation, it is doomed to fail, says Richard Barr

Mapping the future

Family grievances and financial mismanagement can threaten investments as much as tax and legislative changes, say Charles Gowlland and Frank Akers-Douglas

Join the dots

With activities-based regulation on the agenda, practices with a multidisciplinary approach are already reaping the commercial benefits, says Ian Muirhead

No time to lose

The demand for LPAs and OPG services is only going to increase year ?on year, so we need to see sufficient investment in staff and...

Playing by the rules

Lawyer urinates into wheelie bin. Not an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail, just another day at the Glastonbury festival.

Help at hand

Investing and managing a lump-sum divorce settlement is not straightforward, and it's a first-time responsibility for many individuals, says Rohan Armes