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All will be revealed

When is disclosing information about prosecution witnesses' previous convictions justified, asks David Rhodes

Best behaviour

As courts increasingly look at the behaviour of parties during mediation proceedings, clients should be advised to cooperate fully and practitioners should ensure they take...

Pitfalls for the unwary

Solicitors must ensure they understand their duties towards LEI insurers and claims management companies or risk a claim being brought against them, says Alison Siniver

Changing tack

The modern legal costs industry that was initially created to serve insurers and defendants has, in the space of little more than a decade, undergone...

Striking at the roots

Masood Ahmed considers the guidance the courts have provided to those wishing to make strike out applications and how a party can avoid an order...

Legal aid voices: housing and repossession

Housing advice at the Derby Community Legal Advice Centre should be available within a fortnight but with rising demand the wait is now up four...

Driven to distraction

I love books. I can never pass a second-hand bookshop without emerging with an armful of them. I am the darling of mail order book...

Update: media

Rod Dadak considers the latest cases on the publication of defamatory statements, media access to family courts and a blogger's right to privacy