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Surely you can't be serious

If the intention of cost budgeting is to bring down the cost of litigation, it is doomed to fail, says Richard Barr

Mapping the future

Family grievances and financial mismanagement can threaten investments as much as tax and legislative changes, say Charles Gowlland and Frank Akers-Douglas

Join the dots

With activities-based regulation on the agenda, practices with a multidisciplinary approach are already reaping the commercial benefits, says Ian Muirhead

No time to lose

The demand for LPAs and OPG services is only going to increase year ?on year, so we need to see sufficient investment in staff and...

Playing by the rules

Lawyer urinates into wheelie bin. Not an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail, just another day at the Glastonbury festival.

Help at hand

Investing and managing a lump-sum divorce settlement is not straightforward, and it's a first-time responsibility for many individuals, says Rohan Armes

State of play: compensation awards and advance decisions

Lynsey Colman reviews recent cases from the Court of Protection, which look at gifts and refusal of blood treatment on grounds of faith

Book review

Justin Patten reads Cretney & Lush on Lasting and Enduring Powers of Attorney (seventh edition)