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Are you advising on Cumulative Impact Zones?

Jeremy Phillips highlights the increased risks and difficulties faced by 'landlords with property in cumulative impact zones

Charities | Should charities propagate extremist views?

Trustees must keep the best interests of their charity ?at heart when considering giving a platform to ?extremist views, says Kenneth Dibble

Workshop: Updated practice on joint ownership

John Bunker reviews the new practice note designed to? mitigate the conflicts associated with joint ownership

ABS countdown | Why did the SRA want to bring its fining powers more in line with the SDT?

Stuart Bushell explores a number of possible explanations for the SRA's desire to bring its fining powers more in line with those of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal

Looking ahead: embracing Jackson and helping self-representing litigants

District Judge Richard Chapman believes solicitors who embrace the Jackson reforms will have little to fear in 2013

Beyond the blunt power of of tax legislation

With corporate tax avoidance in the spotlight, Alan Cockerill examines how judges have reconciled the duty on businesses to comply with the law and directors' responsibility to their companies and shareholders

Virtual water cooler: Enterprise social networks for law firms

Rethinking tools: How technology is changing document review

Jérôme Torres Lozano and Todd Mansbridge explore how predictive coding, audio search and other e-disclosure tools are transforming technology-assisted document review