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Trustee or deputyship order?

The Court of Protection needs to be convinced in each individual case that a personal injury trust is a more efficient way of managing a large damages award before departing from the norm of deputyship order, says Sarah Playforth

Legal ethics can't be based on anecdotes

Simplistically seeing 'unethical' lawyers as ?bad apples to be discarded shows how inadequate current tools are in measuring ethical behaviour in the ?legal services sector, says Richard Moorhead

Disenchanted lawyers: How to increase your retention of young talent

Jill King explores the reasons for discontentment and depression in ?young lawyers and how to increase their retention

What does the future hold for business technology in law firms?

By Neil Davison, Head of IT, Farrer & Co

Could consumer protection laws help defective implant claimants?

Women with no clinical need for the removal of faulty breast implants are left with no obvious remedy, unless they can be allowed to rely on the Consumer Credit Act, says Daniel Collins

Payne Hicks Beach among firms heading LeO's 'list of shame'

Complaint about family law department triggers compensation award

Workshop: Property: buying repossessed

John Coulter considers how to handle restrictions on titles and other pitfalls when acting for buyers of respossessed property being sold by lenders

The internet needs new boundaries

The re-printing in Britain of pictures of Prince Harry first published in the US are a further illustration of the need to protect privacy in the age of internet, says Rod Dadak