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No happily ever after

A panel of specialist family mediators should be established to provide more support to abducted children, Professor Marilyn Freeman tells Catherine Baksi

Over and above

Go beyond what is expected by the SRA's Accounts Rules to ensure a clean bill of health in respect of client money, advises Jennifer Martin

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Is it time for the Law Society to step in, or for the LSB to regulate how lawyers describe themselves?

The dark side of the MoJ

Purdah has allowed the government to implement new guidance and charges in a way that Niccolò Machiavelli would be proud of

Owning social media data

Andy Williams and Emily Chalkley consider steps employers should take to protect the client contact details contained in employees' social media accounts

Unreasonable costs

Sue Nash considers recent decisions on reducing disproportionate costs budgets and what this will mean for estimating future costs

Cannibalism in the legal sector

Firms are preying on each other as the number of opportunistic claims for under-settlement of a previous case increases, says Chris Neale

Pensions panic opens old wounds

Dilini Loku considers the recent decision on IBM's closure of its defined benefit pension schemes and what this means for employers