Legal Practice Notes & Tips for Solicitors

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A party must ensure a debt has in fact fallen due before taking legal steps to recover the money, says Thomas Bond

To 2020 and beyond

Sebastian Burrows looks ahead to the next decade and the challenges for lawyers as family law and practice evolves

Bust Trusts: A matter for Priorities

A Privy Council ruling could have wide implications for trustees and creditors of an insolvent trust, says Clara Hamon

Alternative dispute resolution forums: lessons from liberalisation

Solicitors need to identify and build on their strengths to demonstrate the value they bring compared to alternative types of representatives, says Mark Fletcher

Land agreements: when exclusivity clauses breach competition law

The CMA has started to use its competition enforcement powers to sanction anti-competitive land agreements between landlords and tenants, say Neil Baylis and Gwen Ballin-Reeler

Children proceedings: speeding up disclosure of police records

The 2013 protocol can be a useful tool in private Children Act cases where you need to obtain police records, as Mariko Wilson explains

Charitable trust corporations as deputies

Matthew Duncan explains what a charity-run trust corporation must produce to satisfy the court it is a fit and proper person for a deputyship

Digital tension with the law

Tom Pritchard asks whether it's time for digital witnesses following the Law Commission report on electronic execution