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Capacity limit: could your client's will be challenged?

Hawes provides further guidance on the circumstances where a will drafted by an experienced solicitor may be challenged, so how much clearer are practitioners about...

Pushing a firm from one of many to one off

Asking questions and challenging long-held assumptions ?is essential to push a firm from one of many to one off, ?says Julian Summerhayes

Editor's blog | Sub-primes for lawyers

Atteys and Blakemores were the legal profession's Lehman Brothers, but will the SRA go the same way as RBS?

Civil conduct | Through the international corporate veil

Claims seeking to pierce the corporate veil bring up further unpredictabilily when involving foreign companies, says James Maton

Transport select committee announces whiplash inquiry

'Access to justice for injured people must be preserved'

Rewards for the modern law firm

Robert Postlethwaite believes ABSs could open up new ways of rewarding the best and brightest while promoting a new, more profitable, way of thinking

Record breakers

Richard Easton predicts a fundamental overhaul ?of the criminal records system as the Supreme Court prepares to evaluate how records are kept in the face...

Taking requests in context

Vicki Bowles welcomes the Upper Tribunal's directions on the assessment of vexatious 'or manifestly unreasonable freedom of information requests