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Treated equally: protecting all volunteers from discrimination

The Supreme Court's invitation to businesses and charities to fight discrimination is at odds with its findings that specialist volunteers are not protected by anti-discrimination legislation, say Declan O'Dempsey and Olivia-Faith Dobbie

Editor's blog | The next costs war

Jackson has left judges filling in the gaps

ABS diary | Next year...

Plan ahead in 2013, says Bernadette Summers, 'because things aren't going 'to get any easier

Unleashed | Going private

From slick front of house service to a surgeon checking up on patients in person, there is a lot lawyers can learn from private medical services, says Russell Conway

Last word | DIY SOS

Catherine Burtinshaw is unimpressed by the SRA's do-it-yourself approach to regulation

Sharing responsibilities

The SRA's new compliance processes haven't been universally well received, but Matthew Tasker believes they provide an opportunity to improve practice management

Reluctance and regret over will rectification

We need a judge brave enough to depart from the unfair precedent that does not 'allow the rectification of wills for legal mistake, says Kevin Shannon

Rectification for mistake: the conflict between common law and equity

A lack of clarity persists in the law of rectification as Alec Samuels explains