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Complaints | Costs in matrimonial proceedings

Michelle Garlick and Deborah Sullivan 'explain how to avoid a complaint over 'fees being escalated to LeO

Leading your firm through a change management programme

Delivering a change programme for their firms may not come naturally to lawyers but in the current climate they have little choice but to shake up their approach, says Julian Summerhayes

Trustee or deputyship order?

The Court of Protection needs to be convinced in each individual case that a personal injury trust is a more efficient way of managing a large damages award before departing from the norm of deputyship order, says Sarah Playforth

Disenchanted lawyers: How to increase your retention of young talent

Jill King explores the reasons for discontentment and depression in ?young lawyers and how to increase their retention

Could consumer protection laws help defective implant claimants?

Women with no clinical need for the removal of faulty breast implants are left with no obvious remedy, unless they can be allowed to rely on the Consumer Credit Act, says Daniel Collins

Workshop: Property: buying repossessed

John Coulter considers how to handle restrictions on titles and other pitfalls when acting for buyers of respossessed property being sold by lenders

The internet needs new boundaries

The re-printing in Britain of pictures of Prince Harry first published in the US are a further illustration of the need to protect privacy in the age of internet, says Rod Dadak

Update | Health & safety

Zahra Nanji revisits the government's new scheme to recover costs incurred through health and safety breaches and proposals to introduce European-style deregulation