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Pay gap

Are higher hourly rates for defendant solicitors justified? Simon Gibbs reports

Cloud nine

As cloud computing continues to be the hottest topic of IT conversations, Damian Blackburn traces its origins and considers how it could help law firms fight off the competition

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

Italian judges are not immune from prosecution for breaching EU law

An Italian statute on the civil liability of judges is incompatible with European case law, the ECJ has ruled.

Consumers let down by legal quality schemes, panel says

Voluntary quality schemes for legal services failed to check providers' technical competence, didn't take account of consumer's views and offered "no proof that they are delivering on their quality claims", the legal services consumer panel has found.