Solicitors should be more forthcoming when faced with a 'Larke v Nugus' letter challenging a will and play their part in the greater drive to avoid litigation, says Mike Parker
Lord Justice Jackson's preliminary report raises fundamental questions that could give rise to a sea change in the way litigation is funded and managed, potentially to the detriment of defendants, say Rachel Moore and Scott Nightingale
Hannah Graves and Chris Ellis consider the new mental capacity provisions, the extension of the “need for care and attention†test, discretionary housing payments, and entitlement to Jobseekers Allowance
Michael Woods reviews the new environmental liability regulations, the Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme, measures to encourage electricity generation from renewable sources, and the new hazardous waste obligations new hazardous waste obligations
The new HIPs regulations give solicitors the opportunity to take charge of the process and improve on relationships with clients and estate agents, says Chris Myers
With more changes to the government's rules on tax and trusts and the arrival of commoditisation, private client practitioners have to up their game if they want to stay on top, says Jenny Ramage
Has the European Court of Justice gone too far in upholding that pharmacies could only be owned by professionally qualified chemists, asks Paul Stanley NO
