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Selection policy

Peter Hartley-Jones explains how the OPG's review of panel deputies in 2011 has led to real improvements

Aiding recovery

Robert Weir QC talks tactics in securing compensation in catastrophic injury cases

Budget's £20m for advice agencies 'a fifth of what is being taken away'

Lord Bach has said the budget announcement of an additional £20m for UK advice agencies for the next two years was “about a fifth of what is being taken away” through the legal aid cuts.

Hidden skeletons: Why your firm needs a whistleblowing culture

William Dawson and Eleanor Rowswell of Farrer & Co discuss the key considerations in developing a firmwide whistleblowing culture

Latent talent: How to align partner development with firm strategy

Des Woods and Nigel Spencer discuss how to align partner development with firm strategy

Our search for a COLP candidate led to some difficult questions

By Ian Jeffery, Managing Partner, Lewis Silkin

Appeal judges reject 'reinterpretation' of nuisance laws

The Court of Appeal has rejected what Lord Justice Carnwath described as an “elaborate reinterpretation” by the High Court of the traditional approach to the law of nuisance.

Black and white

Marley v Rawlings reinforces to practitioners that there is little middle ground when it comes to drafting, says Joseph Goldsmith