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'Unjust' to impose Part 36 costs rule on brain-damaged boy

Court of Appeal awards costs to claimant lawyers after they fail to beat offer

Does your firm have a sophisticated approach to pricing its legal services?

By Tim Aspinall, Managing Partner, DMH Stallard

Taking leave: the end of 'use it or lose it' holiday policies

The Court of Appeal's decision in NHS Leeds v Larner [2012] EWCA Civ 1034 has brought the issue of the relationship between annual leave and long-term sickness absence back at the forefront of employers' attention.

Editor's blog | Breaking the waves

The profession has the power, collectively, to push back new entrants

The deterrent effect of prosecution costs recovery orders

Extending the civil law concept of proportionality to the making of orders for the 'recovery of prosecution costs would have a greater deterrent effect on repeat offenders, 'says David Pritchard

Felix | Criminal lawyers will do more, but not for less

Instead of giving tube 'drivers a bonus for working during the Olympics the government should implement Louise Casey's report and fund initiatives to stem entrenched criminal behaviours, says Felix

EU briefing | Reframing the European court's jurisdiction

The Luxembourg court will not get involved in the resolution of hypothetical or frivolous cases, but better still it should make clear its jurisdiction depends solely on whether a reference raises a question of interpretation of European Union law, says Paul Stanley QC

Folk law | Don't spare the rod

It was only 64 years ago that all forms of judicial corporal punishment were abolished in Britain. Andrew Lugger reports