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Practice management | All roads lead to law

The current shrinking of training contracts is pointing graduates towards alternative legal careers, says Jonathan Kay

Prest: 'Evasion' will make the court look behind corporate personality

Following judgment in VTB v Nutritek [2013] UKSC 5, Mrs Prest was cautioned on several occasions not to hold her breath with regard to a...

Prest: transfer of assets to corporate structures will be harder to challenge

Family lawyers' hopeful anticipation of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Petrodel v Prest has been misplaced. Those voices shouting about a new dawn in the treatment of...

Prest: a very English solution

In Prest v Petrodel the Supreme Court kept company law principles intact and used property and trust law to reach a fair conclusion - but...

Keeping a cool head is key to discharging freezing orders

Defendants seeking to get freezing orders discharged stand ?a much better chance if they think strategically and do not rush into potentially costly and ineffective...

Trustees, mistake, and Hastings-Bass

The Supreme Court's judgment in Futter v HMRC and ?Pitt v HMRC has clarified the law of mistake, but, argues ?John Toth and Hannah Batten,...

PII Focus | The big insurance renewal: small firms reliant on unrated insurers will face a difficult task

This year will be the last in the past 40 years where firms will have to renew compulsory professional indemnity at a set date, but...

PII Focus | What can the market expect this year?

Solicitors Journal asks brokers, barristers, experts and solicitors what they expect from professional indemnity after June renewals