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One of the family: Re Erskine Trust

Adopted sons win right to be considered next of kin in High Court's decision in Re Erskine Trust, reports Joseph Goldsmith

Nurturing talent: How to develop a feedback and mentoring culture

Rebecca Normand-Hochman provides some tips on ?developing a feedback and mentoring culture

Feeling decisions: Why lawyers need emotional intelligence

Rachel Brushfield of Energise explores the importance of emotional intelligence in law firms

Striking partners out: How to tackle partner underperformance

Nick Jarrett-Kerr discusses the ten main reasons for partner underperformance and how to deal with them

Has HMRC's clampdown on QROPS gone too far?

No, says Rachael Griffin. Confusion over HMRC's motivation for the changes and uncertainty about the new rules shows that it hasn't gone far enough

On the beat | The case against privatising the police

A publicly-run police services can't be outsourced without the public's consent

More clients shopping around for legal services

Value-for-money satisfaction up with three in five clients on fixed-fee deals

Deprivation of liberty: turning back the clocks

A case involving the lawfulness of the detention of a military conscript has been wrongly extended for decades to wider situations involving deprivation of liberty, says a new approach taking account of other factors