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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

The proposal for a new absolute ground for possession is misjudged

Contrary to government assurances, the new absolute ground for possession in anti-social behaviour cases is likely to result in an unjustified rise in evictions, says Sam Madge-Wyld

View from the bench | Can the courts avoid the Jackson paper flood?

Litigants in the new Jackson environment will need to be more efficient and work more closely with ?the courts if we are to avoid being clogged up ?with paper, says District Judge Robert Jordan