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Committee 'pulls its punches' on legal aid

The justice select committee “pulled its punches” in its report on legal aid, Steve Hynes, director of the Legal Action Group, has said.

Go ahead for Jackson 'bitterly disappointing', claimant lawyers say

Claimant lawyers have described the government's decision to implement all the major reforms of the Jackson review on costs in civil litigation as “bitterly disappointing”.

Right move

Jonathan Silverman and Jennie Kreser explain how capitalising on intellectual property rights could unlock funds from a client's pension fund

Update: employment

Sue Ashtiany reviews the new retirement rules, additional paternity leave and recent decisions on unfair dismissal

Pushing forward

As the government goes full steam ahead with Jackson, Simon Gibbs brings us up to speed on the current case law ahead of wholesale civil justice reform

No place like home

Could home births now be outlawed following rulings by Brussels and Strasbourg? Barbara Hewson reports

No win, no fee, no way

When Ken Clarke unveiled his widely anticipated plans to reform no win, no fee arrangements last Tuesday, nobody expected that he would also put forward another set of proposals for the reform of the civil justice system as a whole. In the maelstrom that engulfed the personal injury world later that day, one issue was remarkably absent...

Suit yourself

The Supreme Court's decision to abolish experts' immunity from suit has left witnesses open to negligence claims, but to what extent will things really change? Danielle Best examines the implications, and Martin Spencer QC advises on what experts should do next