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Double entry

Has Jackson really been too kind to insurers? Simon Gibbs does the sums

Update: housing

Giles Peaker considers Pinnock, the sequel, and a trio of revealing decisions on homelessness

Update: health and safety

Zahra Nanji considers how the Young report and its offshoots have been affecting case law

Roll with it

It is music to my clients' ears that I have settled a couple of cases. The first was difficult on a number of levels because of its technicality and emotive circumstances. One of the claimants had been terminally ill for a long period of time and died the day before the scheduled mediation. The family bravely chose to go ahead in an attempt to get on with resolving what had already been a fairly drawn-out claim.

£6m plastic surgery award 'could not happen after Jackson reforms'

The solicitor acting for Penny Johnson, the woman who won £6m in damages at the High Court in the biggest ever award for plastic surgery injuries, has said that he would not have been able to take on the case if the Jackson reforms had been implemented.

Claim to share of farm an 'incurable nullity'

A claim by three daughters to a half share of a farm lived in by their father, who died intestate, has been described as an “incurable nullity” by the Court of Appeal.

Judicial review court to be mothballed next week

Hearings at Sittingbourne Magistrates' Court, the court at the centre of the legal battle against the government's radical closure programme, will end tomorrow.

New conveyancing service to sign up six firms by Christmas

In-Deed, the conveyancing service launched earlier this week by Rightmove's founder Harry Hill, is looking to sign up six firms on to its panel between now and Christmas, Solicitors Journal can reveal.