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Valuing agency

Compensation for termination of agency should be calculated by reference to the resale value – but how should that value be set, asks Stephen Sidkin

When all hope is gone

If a whole life sentence has no prospect of release then does this utimately amount to inhuman treatment of those receiving the sentence, asks David Rhodes

A mirror of marriage?

Courts are unlikely to follow blindly the precedents set by traditional marriages when establishing principles applicable to the break up of civil partnerships, says Gerald Wilson

Update: employment

Sue Ashtiany reviews recent cases on equal pay, age and religious discrimination, and compensation for failure to take up employment

Sleeping is not working

Resident carers are set to reappear in catastrophic injury litigation, says Victoria Coleman

Part of the package

Only some of the passengers on the Qantas flight forced to make an emergency landing in Manila could seek compensation for psychological shock, says David Grant

Practice makes perfect

Law courses that offer more practical elements to help to prepare students for the rigours of practice should be embraced as attractive to students and employers,says Philip Roberts

A bond salesman's word may not be his advice

Gloster J's detailed recent judgment in JP Morgan Chase v Springwell Navigation [2008] EWHC 1186 (Comm) indicates that 'experienced investors' in the bond markets will find it difficult to argue that banks – via their salesmen – owe them any advisory duty or responsibility for investment decisions, where this would be inconsistent with the disclaimers and other terms expressly set out in the deal documentation.