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Not overstating the significance of Tyco

Fortunately for employers, the CJEU ruling does not prescribe ?that employees be paid to travel to and from work, explains Sean Jones QC

Fortune rookie

High-net-worth individuals in Hong Kong are fast appreciating the need to have a robust succession planning strategy in place,reports Patricia Woo

Pre-medical settlement offers: 'Tis the season

Chris Neale considers an unwelcome blight to the festive period

CQS accreditation is 'no longer enough

Further restrictions being introduced by panels risk alienating perfectly good conveyancing firms and leave buyers with unenviable choices, discusses Jennifer Williamson

Banging the legal aid, human rights, and diversity drums

Law Society president Jonathan Smithers talks to John van der Luit-Drummond about firefighting some of the most difficult issues Chancery Lane has ever had to face

Not all men are perverts and not all women are sensitive

Sexist behaviour undeniably needs to be called out, but what of unconscious bias, asks Pippa Allsop

Why Cameron didn't legally react to 'piggate'

Following David Cameron's  claim that he was 'too busy running the country' to bring legal proceedings in respect of Lord Ashcroft's allegations that he once inserted 'a private party of his anatomy' into a dead pig's mouth, when should an individual issue defamation proceedings? 

RSPCA's right of reply to ''The zeal of the RSPCA'

David Kirwan's claim (see SJ 159/40) that one case in 2014 ?shows the RSPCA 'could win a prosecution without evidence or proving malic'; does not stand up to examination.