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Taking cover
Solicitors Journal

Taking cover

Premiums might go up, or they might not, but either way solicitors would benefit from putting in early and properly presented applications to their indemnity insurance provider and avoid last year's fiasco. Jean-Yves Gilg reports
Driving a hard bargain
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Driving a hard bargain

Proposed plea bargaining powers would have important ramifications for both prosecutors and defenders in complex financial crime cases, says Steven Francis
Trivial pursuit
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Trivial pursuit

With wider protection available to whistleblowers, employees' concerns about environmental damage should not be disregarded as too trivial, says Daniel Tivadar
Lessons in life
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Lessons in life

Practitioners are frustrated that it is becoming harder for children and parents to access legal advice in education disputes, as Jenny Ramage discovers
Update: insolvency
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Update: insolvency

David Archer discusses the rise of 'pre-pack' administration sales, the application of TUPE to insolvent companies, a rare misfeasance case, the application of the pari passu rule, and the latest guidelines on administrators' breach of duty
Don't bank on a bonus
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Don't bank on a bonus

Lawyers should prepare for a hard-fought battle over bonuses for investment bank employees who have been made redundant, says Jonathan Evans
Life in crime
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Life in crime

David Rhodes discusses the fallibility of ear-print evidence as shown in R v Kemper
Back to basics on confiscation
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Back to basics on confiscation

Recent House of Lords' decisions have reminded prosecutors to focus on factual evidence rather than statutory assumptions, says David Winch