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Service update

Managing finances to counselling to dog walking. Richard Joynt and Ian Slack clarify the range of family office services on offer

Encouraging investment

Editor's blog | Power failure

Comparison websites would help improve consumer shopping around, but nothing beats word of mouth says Jean-Yves Gilg

The impossible rise of damages-based agreements

Expectations that costs budgeting will encourage damages-based agreements are unrealistic, says Kerry Underwood

Unbundling unbundled: is our approach to family legal services finally changing?

Cuts to legal aid are hitting family practitioners' client base like never before. As the Law Society pub lishes a practice note on unbundling, we try to demystify a term mired in misunderstanding. Face-to-face advice, transparent costing and clearly-defined services - unbundling is supposed to be the simple way, so why is it so confusing?

Behind bars | The not so distant future

Jeannie Mackie pays a visit to the privatised courts of the government's imagination

Charities | Changing legal structure

Marion Shanley looks at the various legal structures for charities and social enterprises, and situations where an organisation could make a change

Organising examination out of the jurisdiction

Litigation involving witnesses outside the jurisdiction is no longer an occurrence limited to large global disputes, 'says Michael McNally