The Court of Appeal has stressed that there are legitimate circumstances when mediation ?is not appropriate, but if a party is found to have unreasonably refused to mediate they ?may be penalised on costs, warn John Bramhall and Melissa Jones
Richard Barr joined the 6,000 walkers on the 2012 London Legal Walk, playing a small part in raising more than half a million pounds for charity. Here is his footsore account of the event
Anna Stillman reviews two protocol compliance cases, the severability of adjudicators' decisions and a case in which the court delivered a scathing reproach of a firm's conduct of a claim on a conditional fee arrangement
From the failure to wear 'a seat belt to cyclists 'riding without helmets, Roger Cooper reviews 'the circumstances where 'a reduction will be 'made on account of contributory negligence
Sue Ashtiany considers the provisions of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, the right to representation during the disciplinary process, employers' contractual obligations and TUPE
The dire situation in the residential property sector gives us a taste of things to come if we adopt this method elsewhere: quality will plummet and negligence claims and insurance premiums will escalate, argues Marilyn Stowe