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Recognising the benefit of ABS

Legal Services Act pioneers Neil Kinsella and Tim Oliver remind us why law firms, like any other businesses, should regard innovation as a positive step

Balancing the cost of legal aid reforms

Changes to the funding regime for personal injury cases are set to affect both sides of the market. Key stakeholders explain how the reforms can most fairly serve all involved

Insolvency update

Two cases have provided welcome guidance on the protection afforded to employees under TUPE when a company enters administration, says Denise Fawcett

Undertakings: how to avoid the traps

It is essential to carefully consider the circumstances of a case and all possible outcomes before giving an undertaking, says John Coulter

Modernising archaic easement laws

Proposals to reform the old laws on easements would put an end to unnecessarily complex and uncertain rules, says Mangala Murali

Purpose alone can no longer determine if there is a deprivation of liberty

Earlier findings by Lord Justice Munby that safeguards do not apply because deprivation of liberty has a benevolent purpose are no longer supported by the more recent approach taken by the European Court of Human Rights, writes David Hewitt

The public is being misled about pre-signed abortion certificates

Health secretary Andrew Lansley's attack on doctors pre-signing abortion certificates is both wrong in law and ignores the realities of medical life, says Barbara Hewson

Greater Snoreing running out of solicitors

There were so many clients jostling to visit the solicitors' offices in Greater Snoreing that the local policeman had to be called to keep public order, particularly among a group of militant elderly ladies who had become convinced that unless they topped up their wills that very day they would die at sundown and all their relatives would be disinherited.