Archive

Commercial property: 'The onus is on solicitors

Recent decisions on the overpayment of rent and property search results, as well as changes in Land Registry practice, highlight the importance of the property practitioner's role, write Anthony Goodmaker, Emilie Hobday, and Miri Stickland

The modern day CFA

Gordon Wignall asks whether an assignment of a personal injury CFA is possible

Take on a risk and 'mitigate unconscious bias

Let your female corporate lawyer work part-time, employ a trainee from a 'new' university, or take on an apprentice, advises Louise Hadland

An alternative to litigation?

Arbitration has slowly marched towards recognition and is now a viable alternative to litigation in family dispute resolution

The mission creep of tax evasion

HMRC's proposed legislation will mean heavier financial and criminal penalties for offshore tax evasion, but beware, says Andrew Watters – this is not evasion as we know it

Revising cost budgets: 'The importance of being prompt

David Wright discusses a recent case on the extent of the court's power to approve incurred and future costs and the lessons practitioners can learn from it

Lawyers urged to be 'cuter' on social media to reap rewards for firms

Regional firms place effective marketing strategies under the microscope

Veterans on closer footing to civilians when it comes 'to asbestos pay-outs

Adrian Budgen discusses the legal reasoning - and outright injustice - behind the disparity between compensation offered by the government to civilians and former troops