Law firms in the North East may be on average smaller than their counterparts in other parts of Britain but are equally apt at tackling the downturn. Jean-Yves Gilg reports
The legislation on age discrimination sits uncomfortably alongside today's economic troubles, while the legitimacy of forced retirement remains a vexed question for employers and employees alike, says Schona Jolly
Setting an upper limit on costs in defamation cases would amount to defendants getting unjustified special privileges over claimants, says Gideon Benaim
Respect, man: that is what it is all about. I have done plenty of cases where the motivation behind the alleged offending appears to be something to do with “respectâ€, and “dissing†that respect due. Now respect in these cases is a funny old thing – a bit of a one-way street to be honest. In these cases the defendant's sense of his own self-respect normally exists in a bubble that appears not to allow space for respect for others. You know the sort of thing: the defendant's right to respect is mutually exclusive to the victim's right not to have a knife stabbed in their guts or a glass shoved in their face and so on.