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Lord Chief Justice announces ten per cent increase in general damages from 1 April 2013

Increase will apply to personal injury cases, nuisance, defamation and 'all other torts which cause suffering, inconvenience or distress to individuals'

Practitioners need to convince clients of the value of expert advice in advance decisions, says Andrew Cusworth

Before we speed up justice, let's make it efficient

There are some worthwhile ideas in the 'speeding up justic'; white paper, ?but let's consider what we would like to achieve first, says Andrew Church-Taylor

Have you fully worked out which efficiencies best suit your firm and clients?

By Ian Jeffery, Managing Partner, Lewis Silkin

The relevance of purpose in deprivation of liberty cases

The addition of ‘purpose' by the English courts to the factors relevant 'in assessing whether there has been a deprivation of liberty can wrongly provide 'a justification to an otherwise unlawful measure, says Laura Davidson

Service by social media will only be allowed in limited circumstances

Before allowing service by social media, the courts will need to be convinced that claimants are not trying to circumvent the strict process, say Elaine Heywood and Sarah Maslen

The pervasive reach of the new 'global basis' test

What is the point of cost budgeting if judges are also allowed to reduce agreed recoverable costs at the detailed assessment stage on completion of the case, asks Simon Gibbs

Life in crime | Commitment issues

Advocates must sometimes resist the temptation 'to keep the brief in-house and avoid being in a position where they are unable to attend court if they want to 'escape wasted costs orders, says Lucy Corrin