Since its creation, the Supreme Court has been successful in educating the public and improving media relations, but one year on it faces several challenges – not least impending budget cuts which could threaten its educative role, says Tom Cross
A Court of Appeal ruling clarifying occupiers' liability has come as a relief to landowners worried about being held responsible for the consequences of visitors' risky activities, says Paul McClorey
As we edge closer to the full force of the Legal Services Act, firms are increasingly focusing on their 'brand' to differentiate themselves – and Yorkshire lawyers are making sure they're ahead of the game. Jean-Yves Gilg reports
Do you ever sit across the table from a client and wonder why you are on one side of the table and they are on the other? I have this terrible anxiety that I shall come back to earth in another life and find myself as a career criminal, from a young age destined to spend much of my life behind bars or at the police station, and being spoken to through the wicket by a harassed duty solicitor or being advised by someonewearing a wing collar and funny white bands and a horse-hair wig. I worry that I will be the one bewildered at the back of numerous courts not being able to hear properly what is going on and being sent down for years at a time. I have represented people my age, and I always wonder how it was that I grew up to sit on one side of the table and my client grew up to sit on the other. It all seems to be about chance.
