The current climate is likely to create more work for litigators but lawyers themselves could increasingly end up as defendants in professional negligence claims brought by lenders, says Georgina Squire
April Fool's Day didn't really feature in my life until 2002 when some friends produced their first child, a son. My husband was highly amused by this perceived social faux pas and wove into his otherwise congratulatory phone call to the new dad the immortal phrase “It could only happen to you, Simkin.â€
Rebecca Cattermole reviews recent developments on anti-social behaviour and the latest rulings on housing allocation schemes, homelessness and tolerated tresspassers
Ellie Watson explains how the ambitious targets set by the Carbon Reduction Commitment will be met in practice and what it will mean for landlords and tenants
Vijay Ganapathy reviews the latest cases on CFAs and assessing the risk of success, when it is appropriate to depart from the “but for†test, the difficulty in appealing first instance decisions, and reversing the burden of proof
