Best value tendering for civil legal aid contracts could start next year, it ha

In taking a broad interpretation to the Commission’s right to intervene in national competition cases the European court has made a sensible decision, says Pau

Partners in a firm have a duty to act in good faith to other partners, but when are they personally liable for their own negligence and when is it the firm’s responsiblity, asks Mark Blackett-Or

Spike Charlwood and Alice Nash review cases on rectification and contribution, as well as decisions involving share purchase agreements, communication problems and an abuse o

David Bird considers written agreements, the main provisions of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill, the new tax tribunal system, interest rates and the highlights of th

Although not authoritatively decided, damages for personal injury should be recoverable under the Rylands rule, provided the injury arises consequentially upon interference with land, says Mar

Keith Wilding welcomes the less adversarial and more flexible approach taken to welfare benefit fraud prosecution under the new tribunal

Lesley Davey reviews the European Commission’s policy on abuse of dominant position, block exemptions, the application of State aid rules in the context of the economic crisis, and the OFT’s ne

The current climate is likely to create more work for litigators but lawyers themselves could increasingly end up as defendants in professional negligence claims brought by lenders, says Georgin