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Home remedies

Alec Samuels examines the options available to owners of new homes who discover serious defects after their builder's contract has expired

Legal wonderland

The Supreme Court's decision to use an ancient rule to get a fair outcome in Mexfield has important implications for all types of tenants, says Ben Chataway

Yellow fever

Is Twitter set to become as popular with lawyers as Yellow Pages was in the '80s, or will it just fade away in a few years' time? ponders Russell Conway

Judges must be careful not to encourage hopeless committal proceedings

County courts should look at the nature and enforceability of an undertaking to make a payment before giving effect to it in a financial order, says DJ John Doel

Few solicitors understand e-disclosure, Jackson LJ complains

“Relatively few solicitors and even fewer barristers” really understand e-disclosure, Lord Justice Jackson has said in the latest lecture on his costs reforms.

Unstable ground

Shovelar v Lane demonstrates the risks to executors of litigation, says Joseph Goldsmith

High Court to hear challenge to council prayers

The High Court is to hear a challenge by the National Secular Society to a town council's pre-business prayers, arguing that they discriminated against non-believers and were a breach of the ECHR.

Effective business development = low risk + high trust

By Andrew Hedley, Director, Hedley Consulting