Another year, another change, and this one – outcomes-focused regulation – should be the last. But, with firms already crying out for guidance, the SRA must start to be more supportive if it is to make it a success, says Susanna Heley
Equality guidelines on hiring and retiring solicitors form part of the new Solicitors Code of Practice, but don't forget to look out for the outcome of Seldon - it should bring further clarity to age discrimination legislation, says Anthony Philpot
The news last week that the majority of consumers relied primarily on friends' recommendations to choose a solicitor shouldn't come as a huge surprise. But it shouldn't be taken as reassurance either.
The decision to allow the use of foreign decoders to broadcast football games is a reminder that the ECJ will continue to oppose attempts to subdivide the single market, says Paul Stanley NO
Work on this month's issue of folk law was well under way when I told the tale of John 'Babbacombe' Lee in September. It was then I realised that Exeter Assizes and home secretary Sir William Harcourt were common to this equally infamous West Country case that took place some four months before the murder in Babbacombe, Torquay shocked Victorian England.
