The message from Birmingham is clear – if impoverished local governments continue to rush through cuts without due regard for their public duty, they will simply wind up back at square one with an additional legal bill on their hands, says Sam Karim
Has all this talk of the professional big bang got you cowering in a corner? Mike Scutt's news of an exciting innovation in alternative business structures may be just the solution you've been looking for - it involves sheds
It is music to my clients' ears that I have settled a couple of cases. The first was difficult on a number of levels because of its technicality and emotive circumstances. One of the claimants had been terminally ill for a long period of time and died the day before the scheduled mediation. The family bravely chose to go ahead in an attempt to get on with resolving what had already been a fairly drawn-out claim.
Hearings at Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court, the court at the centre of the legal battle against the government's radical closure programme, will end tomorrow.
In-Deed, the conveyancing service launched earlier this week by Rightmove's founder Harry Hill, is looking to sign up six firms on to its panel between now and Christmas, Solicitors Journal can reveal.
