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Catching up

With growing competition and increasingly complex client situations, solicitors should avoid head-on competition with the new 'Tesco law' entrants and instead stay focused on the...

On guard

The government may be keen for not-for-profit organisations to provide deputyship services, but solicitors' advice will always be needed – particularly in more complicated cases,...

Cats and QASAs

If only the myths about court were true, it would be a lot more exciting, muses Felix

Who ate the cabin boy?

Work on this month's issue of folk law was well under way when I told the tale of John 'Babbacombe' Lee in September. It was...

Free and single

The decision to allow the use of foreign decoders to broadcast football games is a reminder that the ECJ will continue to oppose attempts to...

Disappointment as tribunal fails to clarify charity law

Ruling consolidates Charity Commission's position on public benefit

Holt and Arif 'will not abandon' QualitySolicitors

Chief operations officer defends sale of firm to private equity

Mixed reaction as Court of Appeal takes tough line on rioters

'Overwhelming obligation' on courts to protect public