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A brewing storm

Trying to keep divorcing couples out of the courts will prove fruitless – the government should be focusing on making the justice system quicker and easier for clients, argues Marilyn Stowe

The future is boutique

The idea that law firms would start offering concierge services is daft enough. That some lawyers would somehow consider the alternative business structure vehicle an attractive model to take this proposition forward verges on fictional.

Data security: Are you doing enough?

By Managed Services Centre (MSC)

Prevention is better than cure

By Winscribe

Do you have the right framework in place to handle cross-border litigation?

By Zylab

Tied up

Re JDS shows that the Court of Protection is not likely to authorise a gift out of funds from personal injury awards, reports Joseph Goldsmith

Lord Neuberger backs Jackson LJ over 'out of kilter' justice system

Lord Neuberger has used the case of an injured bathroom fitter to give his backing to Lord Justice Jackson's reforms, which the Master of the Rolls said he hoped would help ensure that costs became “more proportionate”.

Out of sight

The Court of Protection should not be open to public scrutiny, says Fenella Morris