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Update | Environment: Amendments to the civil procedure rules and the Aarhus Convention

Amendments to the civil procedure rules fail to give proper effect to provisions in the Aarhus convention on guaranteed access to justice in environmental cases, says Adrienne Copithorne

Management | Technology : Think before you buy

Your CRM software is unlikely to solve your client relations issues if you don't identify precisely what these are and how you want to use the system, warns Damian Blackburn

Workshop: Commmercial: Advising clients offered equity in a business

Most clients will be enthusiastic about being offered equity in a business; you role as their adviser is to make sure this is not a poisoned chalice, says Jonathan Silverman

Update | Clinical negligence: Want of care, loss of chance and late test results

Jock Mackenzie reviews clinical ?negligence cases involving want of care, ?judge's assessment methodology, loss of ?a chance, and liability for late test results

School traffic not covered by anti-nuisance covenant

Covenant not directed to 'familiar problems' of congestion and noise, Mummery LJ says

DR v GR

Jonathan Riley summarises a recent will dispute case and the lessons learned for practitioners

Agreed costs budget could be open to challenge

Litigants who have managed their costs within agreed budgets should not ?expect judges to just rubberstamp the final costs claim, says Simon Gibbs

Will the real team leaders please stand up?

As she relives an unpleasant blame-game incident, Catherine Burtinshaw urges her fellow solicitors to take a more professional, team approach to accountability