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17 Mar 2009

Out with the old

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

17 Mar 2009

The Empire strikes back

Setting an upper limit on costs in defamation cases would amount to defendants getting unjustified special privileges over claimants, says Gideon Benaim

17 Mar 2009

On yer bike

Our constitutional rights are slowly being eroded by an increasingly managerial approach to criminal cases, says David Rhodes

17 Mar 2009

Exclusion Clauses and Unfair Contract Terms 9th edition

ISBN: 978 1 847 03722 0

17 Mar 2009

Respect, man

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 “respect”, 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.

17 Mar 2009

Execution of Documents 2nd edition

ISBN: 978 1 85328 699 5

10 Mar 2009

Last throw of the dice

The final judgment in Mubarak has resolved the debate over variation of Jersey trusts but this is not the end of the story for principle of comity, says Emma Jordan

10 Mar 2009

Your wish is my command

Earlier this month the High Court took a radical new approach to the determination of 'best interests' under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 but will the outcome in individual cases be so different, asks Barbara Rich