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Workshop: Commmercial: Advising clients offered equity in a business

Most clients will be enthusiastic about being offered equity in a business; you role as their adviser is to make sure this is not a poisoned chalice, says Jonathan Silverman

Update | Clinical negligence: Want of care, loss of chance and late test results

Jock Mackenzie reviews clinical ?negligence cases involving want of care, ?judge's assessment methodology, loss of ?a chance, and liability for late test results

DR v GR

Jonathan Riley summarises a recent will dispute case and the lessons learned for practitioners

Agreed costs budget could be open to challenge

Litigants who have managed their costs within agreed budgets should not ?expect judges to just rubberstamp the final costs claim, says Simon Gibbs

How low can you go?

Forecasts suggest there will be increasing challenges over the next five years for low-risk investors and their advisers, says Claire Bennison

Greaves v Stolkin

Jonathan Riley rounds up a contentious probate case and the lessons learned for practitioners

Secrets and lies

Controversial and sinister? A licence to loot? Your client could be reading these media labels about the Court of Protection, warns Sofia Tayton

To err is human

Trustees are open to making costly mistakes now the Supreme Court has handed down its judgment on Pitt and Futter, says Lloyd Junor