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Stop navel gazing and focus on your clients' changing needs

By Julious P. Smith, Jr, Chairman Emeritus, Williams Mullen

Council breached equality duty with library cuts

Surrey County Council breached its public sector equality duty by voting through a plan to replace professional librarians with volunteers, the High Court has ruled.

Strasbourg judges reject terrorism suspects' extradition appeal

The European Court of Human Rights disappointed many of its critics this morning by rejecting the claims of five men charged with terrorism offences in...

Drop the sales pitch for a stewardship-approach, Colin Lawson tells wealth management companies

Courts without lawyers

Litigants in person don't represent themselves by choice. Mostly they do so either because their claim falls outside the scope of legal aid or because...

Applying to become an alternative business structure

Three-partner firm John Welch & Stammers was one of the first three organisations to be licensed as an alternative business structure by the SRA last...

Sound investment: clarifying the rules on capital and income in trusts

From new rules allowing charities to run a more effective total return investment policy to a complete reform of the treatment of capital and income,...

HSBC's decision to cut down its conveyancing panel is bad for clients

Solicitors interested in residential property work will undoubtedly be familiar with the ongoing HSBC debacle.