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Supply and demand

The latest ECJ decision on selective distribution agreements demonstrates a lack of understanding of consumer values, says Paul Stanley NO

Clinical negligence update

Dr Jock Mackenzie explores a recent case involving a claimant practitioner's reliance on res ipsa loquitur

From Tesco law to John Lewis law

By Ian Jeffery, Managing Partner, Lewis Silkin

Doctor death

Anyone living in the south-coast town of Eastbourne in the late 1950s would be familiar with the name Dr John Bodkin Adams. His murder trial was (at the time) the longest in British legal history, but, instead of going to the gallows, remarkably, the overweight doctor was acquitted on 10 April 1957 and resumed medical practice in Eastbourne some four years later. But was he an angel of mercy or an unconvicted mass murderer who killed his patients decades before we heard the name Harold Shipman?

Ganging up

Gang culture is more damaging now than ever before, but how can we tackle it? asks Felix

Warning to lawyers as LeO secures first fine

Solicitor escapes jail sentence but courts may have 'no option' in future

Legal complaints framework not 'fit for purpose'

A new report for the Legal Ombudsman has called for a review of the right of redress for consumers complaining of poor legal service following concerns that the arrival of alternative business structures into the legal services sector will increase confusion.

Thousands of part-time judges in line for a pension

Entitlement to retirement pension strengthens judicial independence, adviser says